Jennifer Vaught
Ashgate
Hardback
256
2008
Offering new readings of works by Shakespeare Spenser and their contemporaries this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to emotionally expressive courtiers or gentlemen on all kinds of men in early modern English literature. Jennifer Vaught traces the gradual emergence of men of feeling during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the blossoming of this literary version of manhood during the eighteenth century.
Ashgate
Hardback
256
2008
Offering new readings of works by Shakespeare Spenser and their contemporaries this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to emotionally expressive courtiers or gentlemen on all kinds of men in early modern English literature. Jennifer Vaught traces the gradual emergence of men of feeling during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the blossoming of this literary version of manhood during the eighteenth century.