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Open subjects : English renaissance republicans, modern selfhoods, and the virtue of vulnerability / James Kuzner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuzner, James.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
- Edinburgh critical studies in renaissance culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Politics and literature--England--History.
- Politics and literature.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Republicanism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser Shakespeare Marvell and Milton is the first to present a genealogy for the modern self in which its republican origins can be understood far more radically.
- Contents:
- Introduction: vulnerable crests of Renaissance selves
- Legacies of republicanism, histories of the self
- 'Without respect of utility': precarious life and the politics of Edmund Spenser's Legend of Friendship
- Unbuilding the city: Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and the forms of openness
- 'That Transubstantiall solacisme': Andrew Marvell, linguistic vulnerability and the space of the subject
- Habermas goes to hell: pleasure, public reason and the republicanism of Paradise Lost
- Epilogue: the futures of open subjects.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5158-6
- 1-283-22185-3
- 9786613221858
- 0-7486-4710-4
- OCLC:
- 745866881
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