{"product_id":"misanthropoetics-9781496222626","title":"Misanthropoetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMisanthropoetics \u003c\/i\u003eexplores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable paradoxes of social life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Shakespeare’s England a burgeoning urban population and the codification of social controls drove a new imaginary of revolt and flight in the figure of the literary misanthrope. This figure of disillusionment became an experiment in protesting absurd social demands, pitting friendship and family against prudent economies, testimonies of durable love against erosions of historical time, and stable categories of gender against the breakdown and promiscuity of language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMisanthropoetics\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the period’s own excoriating crit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating and valuable topic, and one that has not been previously well studied. The figure of the misanthrope and his relationship to and flight from society is well worth exploring. Darcy writes with great fluency and wit.”—Alan Stewart, co–general editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Definition at the Limits of Form \u003cbr\u003e 1. Models Not to Copy: \u003ci\u003eTimon of Athens\u003c\/i\u003e, Knowledge, and the Performance of the Misanthrope\u003cbr\u003e 2. Midas’s Food: Paternity, Incest, and the Renaissance Economy in \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePericles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Retreats of Despair and Devotion: Choice, Faith, and Exile in Book 4 of \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. “Put This in Latin for Me”: Alienated Speech and Phenomenological Discourse in Ben Jonson’s \u003ci\u003eEpicoene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Pygmalion’s Image and Misanthropoetics in Coda\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409232994647,"sku":"9781496222626","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496222626.jpg?v=1730506066","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/misanthropoetics-9781496222626","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}