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Ben Jonson and Envy (Hardcover)
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Ben Jonson and Envy (Hardcover)
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In the early modern period, envy was often represented
iconographically in the image of the Medusa, with snaky locks and a
poisonous gaze. Ben Jonson and Envy investigates the importance of
envy to Jonson's imagination, showing that he perceived spectators
and readers as filled with envy, and created strategies to defend
his work from their distorting and potentially 'deadly' gaze.
Drawing on historical and anthropological studies of evil eye
beliefs, this 2009 study focuses on the authorial imperative to
charm and baffle ritualistically the eye of the implied spectator
or reader, in order to protect his works from defacement. Comparing
the exchange between authors and readers to social relations, the
book illuminates the way in which the literary may be seen to be
informed by popular culture. Ben Jonson and Envy tackles a
previously overlooked, but vital, aspect of Jonson's poetics.
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