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The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Fordham Univ Pr
Publication date May 1, 2012
Pages 286
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780823239108
ISBN-10 0823239101
Dimensions 0.75 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.15 lbs.
Original list price $60.00
Other format details university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser's 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England. Histories of violence, trauma, and injury have dominated literary studies, often obscuring vulnerability, or an openness to sensation, affect, and aesthetics that includes a wide range of pleasures and pains. This book approaches early modern sensations through the rubric of the vulnerable body, explores the emergence of notions of shared vulnerability, and illuminates a larger constellation of masculinity and ethics in post-Reformation England.

Spenser's era grappled with England's precarious political position in a world tense with religious strife and fundamentally transformed by the doctrinal and cultural sea changes of the Reformation, which had serious implications for how masculinity, affect, and corporeality would be experienced and represented. Intimations of vulnerability often collided with the tropes of heroic poetry, producing a combination of defensiveness, anxiety, and shame. It has been easy to identify predictably violent formations of early modern masculinity but more difficult to see Renaissance literature as an exploration of vulnerability.

The underside of representations of violence in Spenser's poetry was a contemplation of the precarious lives of subjects in post-Reformation England. Spenser's adoption of the allegory of Venus disarming Mars, understood in Renaissance Europe as an allegory of peace, indicates that The Faerie Queene is a heroic poem that militates against forms of violence and war that threatened to engulf Europe and devastate an England eager to militarize in response to perceived threats from within and without. In pursuing an analysis, disarmament, and redefinition of masculinity in response to a sense of shared vulnerability, Spenser's poem reveals itself to be a vital archive of the way gender, violence, pleasure, and pain were understood.

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from Fordham Univ Pr (May 1, 2012); titled "The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity"
9780823239108 | details & prices | 286 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $60.00
About: The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser's 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Fordham Univ Pr (March 1, 2014); titled "The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity"
9780823261680 | details & prices | 286 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $29.00
About: The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spenser's 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, and affective vulnerability in Renaissance England.

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