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Joseph Campana - The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity - 9780823239108 - V9780823239108
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The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity

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Description for The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.

The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser’s 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England. Histories of violence, trauma, and injury have dominated literary studies, often obscuring vulnerability, or an openness to sensation, affect, and aesthetics that includes a wide range of pleasures and pains. This book approaches early modern sensations through the rubric of the vulnerable body, explores the emergence of notions of shared vulnerability, and illuminates a larger constellation of masculinity and ethics in post-Reformation England.
Spenser’s era grappled with England’s precarious political position ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823239108
SKU
V9780823239108
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About Joseph Campana
Joseph Campana is Alan Dugald McKillop Chair and Associate Professor at Rice University. He is the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (Fordham, 2012), which won the South Central MLA Book Prize, and two collections of poetry, The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005) and Natural Selections (Iowa, 2012), which won the Iowa Poetry ... Read more

Reviews for The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity
"A brilliant, bold, generous, and moving book. Campana makes powerful contributions in ethics, gender and sexuality, and the narrative imagination in Spenser’s Reformation culture.”
-—Theresa Krier, Macalester College Campana makes a highly compelling case for his claims, and this accomplished and ambitious book will undoubtedly provoke a great deal of lively discussion for years to come.
—Studies in English ... Read more

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