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Lady in the Labyrinth
William Shullenberger
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Description for Lady in the Labyrinth
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 662.
Modern literary scholarship has traced the ways in which a distinctly modern sense of selfhood and subjectivity, and of the individualist liberal society in which such a self takes shape, emerges from the drama and poetry of the early seventeenth century. John Milton, writer of the greatest long poem in English, Paradise Lost, takes up the challenge of modern character and social formation from Shakespeare and Donne and their contemporaries. He begins this task in his own early maturity, some thirty years before the publication of his great epic, with A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle,I>, more commonly known as ... Read more
Modern literary scholarship has traced the ways in which a distinctly modern sense of selfhood and subjectivity, and of the individualist liberal society in which such a self takes shape, emerges from the drama and poetry of the early seventeenth century. John Milton, writer of the greatest long poem in English, Paradise Lost, takes up the challenge of modern character and social formation from Shakespeare and Donne and their contemporaries. He begins this task in his own early maturity, some thirty years before the publication of his great epic, with A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle,I>, more commonly known as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473872
SKU
V9781611473872
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About William Shullenberger
William Shullenberger is professor of literature and Joseph Campbell Chair in the Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College.
Reviews for Lady in the Labyrinth
Penetrating psychological insight, acute literary analysis, and a lush framework of cultural reference make Lady in the Labyrinth an enlightening discovery throughout…. His interweaving of Milton's masque with Spenser's masque in Book III of The Faerie Queene warrants special notice for its extended illumination of both works.
Christianity and Literature
Indeed, the whole book is redolent of deep ... Read more
Christianity and Literature
Indeed, the whole book is redolent of deep ... Read more