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The pain of Reformation = Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The pain of Reformation/ Joseph Campana.
Reminder of title:	Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity /
Author:	Campana, Joseph.
Published:	New York :Fordham University Press, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (240 p.).
Subject:	Reformation - England. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780823249527 (electronic bk.)

The pain of Reformation = Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity /
Campana, Joseph.

The pain of ReformationSpenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity /[electronic resource] :Joseph Campana. - 1st ed. - New York :Fordham University Press,2012. - 1 online resource (240 p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser's 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical,social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England. Histories of violence, trauma, and injury have dominated literary studies, often obscuring vulnerability, or an openness to sensation, affect, and aesthetics that includes a wide range of pleasures and pains. This book approaches early modern sensations through the rubric of the vulnerable body, explores the emergence of notions of shared vulnerability, and illuminates a larger constellationof masculinity and ethics in post-Reformation England. Spenser's era grappled with England's precarious political position in a world tense with religious strife and fundamentally transformed by thedoctrinal and cultural sea changes of the Reformation,which had serious implications for how masculinity, affect, and corporeality would be experienced and represented. Intimations of vulnerability often collided with the tropes of heroic poetry, producing a combination of defensiveness, anxiety, and shame. It has been easy to identifypredictably violent formations of early modern masculinity butmore difficult to see Renaissance literature as an exploration of vulnerability. The underside of representations of violence in Spenser's poetry was a contemplation of the precarious lives of subjects in post-Reformation England. Spenser's adoption of the allegory of Venus disarming Mars,understood in Renaissance Europe as an allegory of peace, indicates that The Faerie Queene is a heroic poem that militates against forms of violence and war that threatened to engulf Europe and devastate an England eager to militarize in response to perceived threats from within andwithout. In pursuing an analysis, disarmament, and redefinition of masculinity in response to a sense of shared vulnerability, Spenser's poemreveals itself to be a vital archive of the way gender, violence, pleasure, and painwere understood"--

ISBN: 9780823249527 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

955120
Spenser, Edmund,
1552?-1599.Faerie queene.Subjects--Topical Terms:

579471
Reformation
--England.

LC Class. No.: PR2358 / .C35 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 821/.3

The pain of Reformation = Spenser, vulnerability, and the ethics of masculinity /
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