The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity

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Notes introduction 1. John Milton, Complete Prose Works of John Milton (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959), 516. 2. Ibid., 514–15. 3. This issue is treated fully in Milton, Complete Prose Works, 515n. 4. Isa. 35:8 (Authorized King James Version). 5. Ibid, 514–15. 6. Thomas Luxon, “Allegory and the Puritan Self,” English Literary History 60 (1993): 918. 7. John Milton, The Major Works, ed. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), 247n. 8. All citations in text and notes of The Faerie Queene (to book, canto, and stanza) are to Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, ed. A. C. Hamilton, 2nd ed. (London: Longman, 2007). 9. An innumerable host of essays and books place Spenser and Milton in a common lineage or trajectory, but the two singularly strongest readings of that literary relationship remain John Guillory’s Poetic Authority : Spenser, Milton, and Literary History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983) and Maureen Quilligan’s Milton’s Spenser: The Politics of Reading (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983). 10. Gordon Teskey, “Literature,” in Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, ed. Brian Cummings and James Simpson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 381. 11. Virgil, Aeneid 1.1, in Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid 1–6, trans. H. Rushton Fairclough, Loeb Classical Library 63 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999). All citations of this work (to book and line number ) are from this edition. 240 Notes to pages 5–9 12. Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of Things, trans. W. H. D. Rouse, Loeb Classical Library 118 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975), 1.29–34. 13. Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland, in The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition, ed. Edwin Greenlaw et al., 11 vols. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1932–57), 10:43. 14. Ibid., 10:16. 15. Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood: The Writing of Elizabethan England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 22. 16. Ibid., 28. 17. Georgia Ronan Crampton, The Condition of Creatures: Suffering and Action in Chaucer and Spenser (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974), 178. 18. Ibid., 47, 48. 19. Edmund Spenser, “Letter of the Authors,” The Faerie Queene, ed. A.C. Hamilton, 2nd ed. (New York: Longman, 2007), 714. 20. Maurice Evans, Spenser’s Anatomy of Heroism: A Commentary on “The Faerie Queene” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), vii. 21. Robin Headlam Wells, Shakespeare on Masculinity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 2. 22. Ibid., 6. 23. Diana Purkiss, Literature, Gender, and Politics during the English Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1. 24. Bruce R. Smith, Shakespeare and Masculinity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 4. 25. Lisa Cevlosky, “Early Modern Masculinities and The Faerie Queene,” English Literary Renaissance 35 (2005): 210. For a more complete social history of early modern masculinity, see Alexandra Shepard, Meanings of Masculinity in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). 26. Purkiss, Literature, Gender, and Politics, 1. 27. Catherine Bates, Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 1. 28. Lynn Enterline, The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), 1. Although Marion Wells does not focus so directly on masculinity in her study of romance, The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007), she understands masculine affect through medical accounts of melancholia, while Jennifer Vaught’s Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008) also focuses on grief as she Notes to pages 9–14 241 attempts to backdate to the Renaissance the man of feeling typical of the cult of sentimentality. 29. Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure, vol. 2 of The History of Sexuality (New York: Vintage, 1985), 51–52. 30. Ibid., 83. 31. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism (New York: Penguin, 2002), 7. 32. Patricia Cahill, Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 2. 33. Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, trans. James Strachey (New York: Norton, 1961), 30. 34. Jacques Lacan, Écrits: A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1977), 4. 35. Headlam Wells, Shakespeare on Masculinity, 8. 36. See Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980); and Cynthia Marshall...