Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English LiteratureJennifer C. Vaught Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 244 pages This study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to emotionally expressive courtiers or gentlemen on all kinds of men in early modern English literature. |
Contents
The Intertextual Poetics of Scholarly Men Affect in Arboreal | 25 |
Stoical Anger in Jonsons | 58 |
Emotional Kings and their Stoical Usurpers in Marlowes | 73 |
Woeful Rhetoric | 88 |
Chivalric Knights Courtiers and Shepherds Prone to Tears | 115 |
Lyrical Private Expressions | 136 |
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