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The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama

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ISBN10: 1501728105
ISBN13: 9781501728105
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.

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