Irregular Unions Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature

• Tác giả: Katharine Cleland
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1501753495
• ISBN-13: 978-1501753480
• ISBN-13: 978-1501753497
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 820.93543 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
• Thông tin xuất bản: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource 210 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 198144
• Chủ đề: 1. Clandestinity (Canon law); 2. England; 3. English literature--History and criticism--Early modern, 1500-1700; 4. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 5. Literary Studies; 6. Marriage in literature; 7. Religious Studies

Tóm tắt

Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors use clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grapple with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, she finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways.