Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern

The first full length treatment of how men of different professions, social ranks and ages are empowered by their emotional expressiveness in early modern English literary works, this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to emotionally expressive courtiers or gentlemen on all kinds of men in early modern English literature. Jennifer Vaught bases her analysis on the epic, lyric, and romance as well as on drama, pastoral writings and biography, by Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Jonson and Garrick among other writers. Offering new readings of these works, she traces the gradual emergence of men of feeling during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to the blossoming of this literary version of manhood during the eighteenth century.

Jennifer C. Vaught is Jean-Jacques and Aurore Labbe Fournet / Board of Regents Associate Professor in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

Introduction: men who weep and wail: masculinity and emotion in early modern English literature
The Intertextual Poetics of Scholarly Men
Affect in Arboreal Works by Spenser and Jonson
Passionate Protestantism
Spenser's dialogic, feminine voice in Book I of The Faerie Queen
A pen as mighty as the sword: stoical anger in Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries upon Men and Matter
Emotional Kings and their Stoical Usurpers in History Plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare
'Monster of men!': androgyny, affect, and politically savvy action in Marlowe's Edward II
'Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes': woeful rhetoric and crocodile tears in Shakespeare's Richard II
Chivalric Knights, Courtiers, and Shepherds Prone to Tears in Pastoral Romances by Sidney and Spenser
Crossdressers in love: men of feeling and narrative urgency in Sidney's New Arcadia
'To sing like birds i' th' cage': lyrical, private expressions of emotion in Book VI of Spenser's Faerie Queen
Demonstrative Family Men
Masculinity and Sentiment in Works by Shakespeare, Lanyer, Cary, Donne, Walton and Garrick
Nightmarish visions of grief: lamentable men in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and Walton's Life of Dr John Donne
Fathers and rogues: peddling middle-class values by shedding tears on stage in David Garrick's Florizel and Perdita
Postscript
Bibliography
Index
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Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature

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