Love against substitution : seventeenth-century English literature and the meaning of marriage / Eric B. Song.

Author
Song, Eric B., 1979- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
  • ©2022
Description
x, 323 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Cultural memory in the present [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Are we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions through depictions of marriage. The writings studied in this book elevate a love between two individuals who deem each other to be unique to the point of being irreplaceable and this vocabulary allows writers to put affective pressure on the meaning of marriage as Pauline theology defines it. Stubbornly individual, love threatens to short-circuit marriage's function in directing intimate feelings toward a corporate experience of Christ's love. The literary project of testing the meaning of marriage proved to be urgent work throughout the seventeenth century. Monarchy itself was put on trial in this century, and so was the usefulness of marriage in linking Christian belief with the legitimacy of hereditary succession. Starting at the end of the sixteenth century with Edmund Spenser, and then exploring works by William Shakespeare, William Davenant, John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aphra Behn, Eric Song offers a new account of how notions of unique personhood became embedded in a literary way of thinking and feeling about marriage"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Beguiling love in the Amoretti and the 1590 Faerie queene
    • Jealousy against substitution in Othello and The winter's tale
    • Gondibert and the biopolitics of marriage
    • Love against succession in Paradise lost
    • Lucy Hutchinson and the imperfection of Christian marriage
    • From remarriage to tragic fungibility : Behn's The forc'd marriage and Oroonoko.
    ISBN
    • 9781503630444 ((cloth))
    • 1503630447 ((cloth))
    • 9781503631403 ((paperback))
    • 1503631400 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2021038420
    OCLC
    1261878569
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