Privacy in the age of Shakespeare / Ronald Huebert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huebert, Ronald, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Privacy in literature.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Summary:

"For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private was vague, they say, and the concept, if it was acknowledged, was rarely valued. In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare's time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality. The era of transition begins with More's Utopia (1516), in which privacy is forbidden. It ends with Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), in which privacy is a good to be celebrated. In between come Shakespeare's plays, paintings by Titian and Vermeer, devotional manuals, autobiographical journals, and the poetry of George Herbert and Robert Herrick, all of which Huebert carefully analyses in order to illuminate the dynamic and emergent nature of early modern privacy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Invasions of Privacy in Shakespeare 28

2 Private Devotions 57

3 Voyeurism 98

4 The Commonplace Book and the Private Self 136

5 Privacy and Gender 164

6 Privacy in Paradise 207

7 Privacy and Dissidence 237

8 "A Fine and Private Place": Andrew Man-ell 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442647916

1442647914

OCLC:

928679207