In this Book
- The Self in Early Modern Literature: For the Common Good
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Duquesne University Press
The theoretical issues at stake are examined in an introductory chapter, followed by chapters discussing central aspects of five major early modern writers whose works variously incorporate elements in Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism. These five writers have been chosen both for their importance in the English literary canon and for their respective roles in early modern culture: “Spenser: Persons Serving Gloriana”; “Shakespeare’s Henriad: Calling the Heir Apparent”; “‘Ego Videbo’: Donne and the Vocational Self”; “Jonson and the Truth of Envy”; “Milton: Self-Defense and the Drama of Blame.” The study ends with a brief postscript on the Bacon family in whom the combined forces of Protestant vocation and Christian civic humanism were uniquely expressed.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-49
- A POSTSCRIPT
- pp. 320-330