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Precarious Identities Studies in the Work of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell

290 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

290 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

290 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book investigates the construction of identity and the precarity of the self in the work of the Calvinist Fulke Greville (1554–1628) and the Jesuit Robert Southwell (1561–1595). For the first time, a collection of original essays unites them with the aim to explore their literary production. The essays collected here define these authors’ efforts to forge themselves as literary, religious,... Read more

Introduction

Vassiliki Markidou and Afroditi-Maria Panaghis

Overview

Calvinist Statesman, Jesuit Martyr: The Worlds of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell

Sarah Covington

Part I: Fulke Greville (1554-1628)

1. "Freedom Among the Dead": Greville’s Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney

Alison Findlay

2. Reading Might Make Us Know: Vulcan’s Brothers and Myra’s Posies in Greville’s Cælica

Elizabeth Mazzola

3. "The Mind of Man is this worlds true dimension": Space, Knowledge, and the Divine in Fulke Greville’s A Treatie of Humane Learning and A Treatise of Religion

Rachel White

4. Duality and Aporia in Greville’s Political Writings

Robert Appelbaum

5. Monarchy and Patriarchy in Fulke Greville’s Mustapha

Brian Cummings

6. "A voyce cries out; Reuenge and Liberty": Republicanism and Gender in Fulke Greville’s Alaham

Vassiliki Markidou

Part II: Robert Southwell (1561-1595)

7. "This pompe is prizèd there": Southwell’s Challenge to Courtly Identities in "New Prince, New Pompe"

Theresa Kenney

8. Complaint as Reconciliation in the Literary Mission of Robert Southwell

Emily A. Ransom