Lynn S. Meskill: Ben Jonson and Envy

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In the early modern period, envy was often represented iconographically in the image of the Medusa, with snaky locks and a poisonous gaze. Ben Jonson and Envy investigates the importance of envy to Jonson's imagination, showing that he perceived spectators and readers as filled with envy, and created strategies to defend his work from their distorting and potentially 'deadly' gaze. Drawing on historical and anthropological studies of evil eye beliefs, this study focuses on the authorial imperative to charm and baffle ritualistically the eye of the implied spectator or reader, in order to protect his works from defacement. Comparing the exchange between authors and readers to social relations, the book illuminates the way in which the literary may be seen to be informed by popular culture. Ben Jonson and Envy tackles a previously overlooked, but vital, aspect of Jonson's poetics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. An anatomy of envy; 3. Defacement: anxiety and the Jonsonian imagination; 4. Sanctuary: Jonson's prophylactic strategy; 5. Monument: turning the text to stone; 6. Being posthumous.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781107406636
ISBN-10:	1107406633
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Meskill, Lynn S.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Lynn S. Meskill
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.05.2012
Gewicht:	0,357 kg