Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England

David Houston Wood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-24617-1 (ISBN)

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Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns. Wood examines the ways that depictions of time expressed in early modern medical texts reveal themselves in contemporary literary works, demonstrating that the early modern recognition of the self as a palpably volatile entity, viewed within the tenets of contemporary medical treatises, facilitated the realistic portrayal of literary characters and served as a structuring principle for narrative experimentation. The study centers on four canonical, early modern texts notorious among scholars for their structural- that is, narrative, or temporal- difficulties. Wood displays the cogency of such analysis by working across a range of generic boundaries: from the prose romance of Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to the staged plays of William Shakespeare's Othello and The Winter's Tale, to John Milton's stubborn reliance upon humoral theory in shaping his brief epic (or closet drama), Samson Agonistes. As well as adding a new dimension to the study of authors and texts that remain central to early modern English literary culture, the author proposes a new method for analyzing the conjunction of character emotion and narrative structure that will serve as a model for future scholarship in the areas of historicist, formalist, and critical temporal studies.

David Houston Wood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English at Northern Michigan University, lives in Marquette, Michigan, where he teaches English Renaissance literature.

Contents: 'Divers paces with divers persons': timing the self in early modern England; 'The accident of an instant': passions, potions, and poisons in Sidney's Old Arcadia; 'Very now': time and the intersubjective in Othello; 'Not a jar o' th' clock': time and narrative in The Winter's Tale; 'Spirit of phrenzie': narrative temporality in Samson Agonistes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-24617-4 / 1138246174
ISBN-13	978-1-138-24617-1 / 9781138246171
Zustand	Neuware