Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare.

Author / Editor
Sokolov, Danila.

Title
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