1st Edition

Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse Six Studies

By A.D. Cousins Copyright 2019
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Writers of the English Renaissance, like their European contemporaries, frequently reflect on the phenomenon of exile—an experience that forces the individual to establish a new personal identity in an alien environment. Although there has been much commentary on this phenomenon as represented in English Renaissance literature, there has been nothing written at length about its counterpart,... Read more

Introduction





Chapter 1. Astrophil, Cupid, Petrarch, and Internal Exile in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella



Chapter 2. Cupid, Venus, Ulysses, Petrarch, and Internal Exile in Spenser’s Amoretti



Chapter 3. The Donna Angelica, Cupid, Petrarch, and Internal Exile in Shakespeare’s Sonnets





Chapter 4. Displacing the Satyr: Urbanity, Exile, and Integration in Donne’s Satires





Chapter 5. Roman Satire and Satyric Exile in Hall’s Virgidemiae





Chapter 6. The Protean Mythology and Calvinist Theology of Exile in Marston’s Satires



Conclusions

Biography

A. D. Cousins, senior Professor in English at Macquarie University, is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia. He has published a number of books in America and England, including monographs on Andrew Marvell, Thomas More, Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, as well as religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.