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Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New edition)
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Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New edition)
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Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and
the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical
attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the
embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to
acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of
these admittedly crucial concerns. Wood examines the ways that
depictions of time expressed in early modern medical texts reveal
themselves in contemporary literary works, demonstrating that the
early modern recognition of the self as a palpably volatile entity,
viewed within the tenets of contemporary medical treatises,
facilitated the realistic portrayal of literary characters and
served as a structuring principle for narrative experimentation.
The study centers on four canonical, early modern texts notorious
among scholars for their structural- that is, narrative, or
temporal- difficulties. Wood displays the cogency of such analysis
by working across a range of generic boundaries: from the prose
romance of Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to the staged plays of William
Shakespeare's Othello and The Winter's Tale, to John Milton's
stubborn reliance upon humoral theory in shaping his brief epic (or
closet drama), Samson Agonistes. As well as adding a new dimension
to the study of authors and texts that remain central to early
modern English literary culture, the author proposes a new method
for analyzing the conjunction of character emotion and narrative
structure that will serve as a model for future scholarship in the
areas of historicist, formalist, and critical temporal studies.
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