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Sinister Aesthetics de Joel Elliot Slotkin

Sinister Aesthetics

Autor Joel Elliot Slotkin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iul 2017
This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters explore a variety of texts, including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Richard III, broadside ballads, and sermons, culminating in a new reading of Paradise Lost and a novel understanding of the dynamic interaction between aesthetics and theology in shaping seventeenth century Protestant piety. Through these discussions, the book introduces the concept of “sinister aesthetics”: artistic conventions that can make representations of the villainous, monstrous, or hellish pleasurable.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319527963
ISBN-10: 3319527967
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: XI, 289 p.
Dimensiuni: 153 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:1st edition 2017
Editura: Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Introduction—Representing Evil in Early Modern England.-Dreadful Harmony”: The Poetics of Evil in Sidney, Tasso, and Spenser.- Honeyed Toads: Sinister Aesthetics in Richard III.-Monsters and the Pleasures of Divine Justice in English Popular Print, 1560-1675.- Satanic Sensibilities in Paradise Lost.- Milton’s Sinister God: Poetic Justice and Chiaroscuro in Paradise Lost.- Epilogue—The Sinister after Milton.

Recenzii

“Sinister Aesthetics is a solid work of historically informed criticism that usefully and persuasively contributes to the ongoing scholarly corrective to New Historicism’s rigidly coercive visions of cultural determinism.” (Andrew Wadoski, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 (2), 2020)

Notă biografică

Joel Elliot Slotkin is Associate Professor of English at Towson University, USA.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters explore a variety of texts, including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Richard III, broadside ballads, and sermons, culminating in a new reading of Paradise Lost and a novel understanding of the dynamic interaction between aesthetics and theology in shaping seventeenth century Protestant piety. Through these discussions, the book introduces the concept of “sinister aesthetics”: artistic conventions that can make representations of the villainous, monstrous, or hellish pleasurable.

Caracteristici

Provides a literary-historical narrative of the poetics of evil, which previous scholarship has not yet treated in a sustained and systematic way Offers a new perspective on the relationship between elite and popular culture and the literary and cultural significance of monstrous births and bodies Analyzes a wide range of early modern writers including Shakespeare, Milton, and Spenser