The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature by Anna K Nardo

The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature by Anna K Nardo

This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.

Anna K. Nardo is Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Milton's Sonnets and the Ideal Community.

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ISBN 13	9780791407219
ISBN 10	0791407217
Title	The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Author	Anna K Nardo
Series	Suny Series The Margins Of Literature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1991-09-10
Number of pages	263
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