Writing Early Modern Loneliness

2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-55051-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in History

This interdisciplinary collection of ten essays is the first to redefine historical conceptions of “loneliness” in the Western world by exploring its manifestation in early modern textual sources. Contrary to current scholarly consensus that loneliness in Britain was understood as an emotion from the late eighteenth century, only beginning to emerge in its literary form in the writings of the Romantic poets, the contributors in this volume argue that early modern people were capable of complex and conflicting feelings of social and emotional isolation which were expressed in a wide range of writings. Moreover, these products of loneliness continue to resonate poignantly with humanity today.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clifton, Thomas

Yip, Hannah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: Is “Early Modern Loneliness” an Anachronism? .- Chapter 2 Anxia Bellerophontis: Bellerophon and Loneliness from Homer to Early Modernity.- Chapter 3 “But she to be a Quene, and creuely handeled as was never sene”: Perspectives on Anne Boleyn’s Loneliness in the Tower of London.- Chapter 4 “A thowsond mylys a sonder”: Catholic Exiles from Tudor England and the Ambiguities of Loneliness.- Chapter 5 “Bear Humanly the Human Lot”: Jan Kochanowski and Seeking Catharsis Alone in Early Modern PolandChapter 6 “It is not good that the man should be alone”: Marriage, Loneliness, and the Clergy in Early Modern England.- Chapter 7 The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Believer: Isolation in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry in English.- Chapter 8 A “Lasting Moniment” to Loneliness: Involuntary Retirement and Survival through the Psalm Translations of Sir Thomas Fairfax.- Chapter 9 “Another time, in a Lowering and sad Evening, being alone in the field”: Revising Loneliness in the Meditative Writing of ThomasTraherne and Elizabeth Delaval.- Chapter 10 William Penn’s : Public Disgrace and Private Consolation.-Chapter 11 The Loneliness of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Past and Present.-12 Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Hannah Yip is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her current research interests centre on the cultural and emotional lives of clergymen in the English Reformation. She has held Fellowships at the Huntington Library, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and the John Rylands Library.

Thomas Clifton PhD MA PGCE (PCET) is a Lecturer in Academic Writing at the Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, UK. Thomas completed an AHRC-funded PhD on “Textual Practices in Meditative Writing, 1661–1678” at the University of Birmingham and an MA in early modern literature at Bangor University. Thomas’s research interests include dialogical thought processes in meditative, reflective, and self-writing, historically and contemporarily, and the fluidity of genre in the early modern period.