Ben Jonson and Envy
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- Author: Lynn S. Meskill, Université de Paris XIII
- Date Published: April 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521517430
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In the early modern period, envy was often represented iconographically in the image of the Medusa, with snaky locks and a poisonous gaze. Ben Jonson and Envy investigates the importance of envy to Jonson's imagination, showing that he perceived spectators and readers as filled with envy, and created strategies to defend his work from their distorting and potentially 'deadly' gaze. Drawing on historical and anthropological studies of evil eye beliefs, this study focuses on the authorial imperative to charm and baffle ritualistically the eye of the implied spectator or reader, in order to protect his works from defacement. Comparing the exchange between authors and readers to social relations, the book illuminates the way in which the literary may be seen to be informed by popular culture. Ben Jonson and Envy tackles a previously overlooked, but vital, aspect of Jonson's poetics.
Read more- Suggests a revision of the traditional oppositions between Shakespeare and Jonson
- Provides an overview of the history of envy from the classical period through to the end of the seventeenth century
- The book is divided into sections dealing with different concepts, providing a theoretical apparatus which can be applied to the study of other authors
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- Date Published: April 2009
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521517430
- length: 242 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 158 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. An anatomy of envy
3. Defacement: anxiety and the Jonsonian imagination
4. Sanctuary: Jonson's prophylactic strategy
5. Monument: turning the text to stone
6. Being posthumous.
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