Discovering the subject in Renaissance England

Discovering the subject in Renaissance England

by Hanson, Elizabeth

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When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery', he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in plays but in legal records, correspondence, philosophical writing and contemporary social description. In this book Elizabeth Hanson argues that the construction of other people as objects of discovery signalled a reconceptualizi…

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  • Full title :Discovering the subject in Renaissance England / Elizabeth Hanson.

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When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery', he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in plays but in legal records, correspondence, philosophical writing and contemporary social description. In this book Elizabeth Hanson argues that the construction of other people as objects of discovery signalled a reconceptualizing of the 'subject' in both the political and philosophical sense of the term. She examines the records of state torture, plays by Shakespeare and Jonson, 'cony-catching' pamphlets and Francis Bacon's philosophical writing, to demonstrate that the subject was both under suspicion and empowered in this period. Her account revises earlier attempts to locate the emergence of modern subjectivity in the Renaissance, arguing for a more nuanced and localized understanding of the relationship with its medieval past.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1998.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 190 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0511005423, 9780511005428
  • oclc:ocm48138720
  • LC Classification:PR428.S82
  • Dewey Decimal:809/.93353

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Difference (Psychology) in literature England English literature -- Early modern English literature -- History and criti… Knowledge, Theory of, in literature LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature Renaissance Renaissance -- Angleterre Renaissance -- England Secrecy in literature Secret dans la littérature Self in literature Subjectivité dans la littérature Subjectivity in literature Théorie de la connaissance dans la litt…

Writers

Hanson, Elizabeth

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