The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.

Info autore

Anna K. Nardo is Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Milton's Sonnets and the Ideal Community.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anna K. Nardo, Anna K Nardo
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 10.09.1991
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese
• EAN: 9780791407219
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0721-9
• Numero di pagine: 263
• Serie: Suny Series in Judaica; Suny Series, the Margins of Li; Suny Series in Judaica
• Categorie: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism