Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare.
- Author / Editor
- Sokolov, Danila.
Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare.
- Published
- Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- ix, 350 pp.
- Series
- Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies.
- Description
- Chapter 2, "Chaucerian Melancholy in Renaissance England," explores how in "Astrophel and Stella" Sir Philip Sidney "reactivates: the melancholic and ambivalent "poetics of selfhood" of BD, as mediated in the "Petrarchan and anti-Petrarchan poetry" of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. Attends to the "slippages of identity" in BD and links them with "melancholy theory from Aristotle to Kristeva."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Melancholy in Renaissance England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Book of the Duchess