Yip / Clifton Writing Early Modern Loneliness

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-55052-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, eBook

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.

Yip, Hannah

Clifton, Thomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Is “Early Modern Loneliness” an Anachronism? .-    

2 Anxia Bellerophontis: Bellerophon and Loneliness from Homer to Early Modernity.-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.-4 “A thowsond mylys a sonder”: Catholic Exiles from Tudor England and the Ambiguities of Loneliness.-5 “Bear Humanly the Human Lot”: Jan Kochanowski and Seeking Catharsis Alone in Early Modern Poland.-6 “It is not good that the man should be alone”: Marriage, Loneliness, and the Clergy in Early Modern England.-7 The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Believer: Isolation in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry in English.-8 A “Lasting Moniment” to Loneliness: Involuntary Retirement and Survival through the Psalm Translations of Sir Thomas Fairfax.-9 “Another time, in a Lowering and sad Evening, being alone in the field”: Revising Loneliness in the Meditative Writing of Thomas Traherne and Elizabeth Delaval.-10 William Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude: Public Disgrace and Private Consolation.-11 The Loneliness of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Past and Present.-12 Afterword.

Über Autor(innen)

Hannah Yip is a UK Research Assistant for ‘GEMMS – Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons’ (SSHRC / University of Saskatchewan). Since completing her AHRC-funded PhD on the visual elements of early modern English sermons at the University of Birmingham in December 2020, Hannah has been awarded several Postdoctoral Fellowships from a number of libraries and societies, including the Henry E. Huntington Library and the Association for Art History. She is currently working on her first monograph, The Printed Sermon in Early Modern England: Materiality, Iconography, and Reformation. Her wide-ranging interests include changing terminologies relating to religious culture in the early modern era; her article, ‘What was a Homily in Post-Reformation England?’, is published in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and was awarded the 2020 Michael K. O’Rourke Best Publication Award (University of Birmingham). With Thomas Clifton, she has published in The Lancet Psychiatry. She has also been credited as a consultant on the BBC’s highly acclaimed series, A House Through Time (Series 3, 2020).

Thomas Clifton is completing his AHRC-funded PhD thesis, ‘Textual Practices and the English Meditative Tradition, 1660–1678’, at the University of Birmingham, UK. With Hannah Yip, he has published in The Lancet Psychiatry. He has substantial administrative experience as the Secretary of the Rainbow Network, the LGBTQ+ Employee Network at the University of Birmingham, and as a Research Assistant for Birmingham’s Centre for Literary Editing and the Materiality of the Text (CLEMT). While his primary research interests are centred on the work of Thomas Traherne and his contemporaries, he also has interests in re-creative approaches to study, and in applying early modern literary forms to modern therapeutic settings.