The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
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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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