Precarious Identities: Studies in the Work of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell

ISBN-13: 9781032083902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 290 str.

Vassiliki Markidou; Afroditi-Maria Panaghis

Opis

This book investigates the literary production of the Calvinist Fulke Greville and the Jesuit Robert Southwell —their effort to forge themselves as literary, religious, and political subjects in a shifting politico-religious landscape, and the similarities/dissimilarities in their vision.

Spis treści

Introduction.  Overview  Calvinist Statesman, Jesuit Martyr: The Worlds of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell  Part I: Fulke Greville (1554-1628)  1. "Freedom Among the Dead": Greville’s Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney   2. Reading Might Make Us Know: Vulcan’s Brothers and Myra’s Posies in Greville’s Cælica  3. "The Mind of Man is this worlds true dimension": Space, Knowledge, and the Divine in Fulke Greville’s A Treatie of Humane Learning and A Treatise of Religion  4. Duality and Aporia in Greville’s Political Writings  5. Monarchy and Patriarchy in Fulke Greville’s Mustapha  6. "A voyce cries out; Reuenge and Liberty": Republicanism and Gender in Fulke Greville’s Alaham  Part II: Robert Southwell (1561-1595)  7. "This pompe is prizèd there": Southwell’s Challenge to Courtly Identities in "New Prince, New Pompe"  8. Complaint as Reconciliation in the Literary Mission of Robert Southwell  9. Robert Southwell’s Articulation of Self-Fashioning  10. Southwell’s Influence: Imitations, Appropriations, Reactions.  Conclusion

O autorze

Vassiliki Markidou is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Culture at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Afroditi-Maria Panaghis is Emerita Professor of English at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.