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The Expense of Spirit : Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama / Mary Beth Rose.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rose, Mary Beth, author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Love in literature.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Literary form--History--17th century.
- Literary form.
- Literary form--History--16th century.
- Women--England--History.
- Women.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Mary Beth Rose is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature and editor of Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and Historical Perspectives.
- Summary:
- A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Moral Conceptions of Sexual Love in Elizabethan Comedy
- 2. Sexual Disguise and Social Mobility in Jacobean City Comedy
- 3. A Waste of Shame: The Heroics of Marriage in English Renaissance Tragedy
- 4. Transforming Sexuality : Jacobean Tragicomedy and the Reconfiguration of Private Life
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501728105
- 1501728105
- 9781501723247
- 1501723243
- OCLC:
- 1028955163
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