Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138391802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 110 str.

Ingo Berensmeyer; Andrew Hadfield

Opis

Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture examines the historical, cultural and epistemological underpinnings of lying and deception in early modern England (1500-1750). The book draws on a wide range of English literature from Shakespeare to Swift, and from travel writing to poetry, in order to explore the extent to which plays, poems and narrative texts were sites of negotiation and, at times, of ideological warfare between the moral imperative of truth-telling and the expediency of telling lies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture  1. Hiding the Peacock’s Legs: Rhetoric, Cosmetics and Deception in Shakespeare’s Lucrece and Trussell’s Hellen  2. Mendacity and Kingship in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Richard III  3. ‘An Anxious Entangling and Perplexing of Consciences’: John Donne and Catholic Recusant Mendacity  4. Truth and Lying in Early Modern Travel Narratives: Coryat’s Crudities, Lithgow’s Totall Discourse and Generic Change  5. ‘Betrayed My Credulous Innocence’: Mendacity and Female Education in John Milton and the ‘Battle of the Sexes’  6. Lying, Language and Intention: Reflections on Swift