Irregular Unions : Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature /
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines man...
保存先:
| 第一著者: | |
|---|---|
| フォーマット: | 電子媒体 eBook |
| 言語: | 英語 |
| 出版事項: |
Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2021]
|
| シリーズ: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| 主題: | |
| オンライン･アクセス: | Full text available: |
| タグ: |
タグなし, このレコードへの初めてのタグを付けませんか!
|
| 要約: | Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors use clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grapple with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, she finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways. |
|---|---|
| 物理的記述: | 1 online resource (210 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781501753480 |
| アクセス: | Open Access |