Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to
represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from
the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of
its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a
number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the
satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable
paradoxes of social life. In Shakespeare's England a burgeoning
urban population and the codification of social controls drove a
new imaginary of revolt and flight in the figure of the literary
misanthrope. This figure of disillusionment became an experiment in
protesting absurd social demands, pitting friendship and family
against prudent economies, testimonies of durable love against
erosions of historical time, and stable categories of gender
against the breakdown and promiscuity of language. Misanthropoetics
chronicles the period's own excoriating critique of the illusion of
resolution fostered within a social world beleaguered by myriad
pressures and demands. This study interrogates form as a means not
toward order but toward the impasse of irresolution, to detecting
and declaring the social function of life as inherently
incongruous. Robert Darcy applies questions of phenomenology and
psychoanalysis, deconstruction and chaos theory to observe how the
great deployers of literary form lost confidence that it could
adhere to clear and stable rules of engagement, even as they tried
desperately to shape and preserve it.
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