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Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton (Paperback)
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Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton (Paperback)
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An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration,
this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is
registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England. It
focuses on the connection of representation of violence in literary
works to historical traumas such as royal death, secularization and
regicide. The author contends that dramatic and poetic forms
function as historical archives both in their commemoration of the
past and in their reenactment of loss that is part of any effort to
represent traumatic history. Incorporating contemporary theories of
memory and loss, Thomas Anderson here analyzes works by Shakepeare,
Marlowe, Webster, Marvell and Milton. Where other studies about
violent loss in the period tend to privilege allegorical readings
that equate the content of art to its historical analogue, this
study insists that artistic representations are performative as
they commemorate the past. By interrogating the difficulty in
representing historical crises in poetry, drama and political
prose, Anderson demonstrates how early modern English identity is
the fragile product of an ambivalent desire to flee history. This
book's major contribution to Renaissance studies lies in the way it
conceives the representations of violent loss-secular and
religious-in early modern texts as moments of failed political and
social memorialization. It offers a fresh way to understand the
development of historical and national identity in England during
the Renaissance.
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