Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England Contributor(s): Hanson, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 052162021X ISBN-13: 9780521620215 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1998 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 809.933 |
LCCN: 98198667 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Sex & Gender - Gay - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern would pluck out the heart of my mystery, he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England: the struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart. Elizabeth Hanson examines the records of state torture, plays by Shakespeare and Jonson, cony-catching pamphlets and Francis Bacon's philosophical writing to demonstrate a reconceptualizing of the subject in both the political and philosophical sense of the term. |