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Renaissance suppliants poetry, antiquity, reconciliation

Title
Renaissance suppliants [electronic resource] : poetry, antiquity, reconciliation / Leah Whittington.
Author
Whittington, Leah, 1979-
Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Description
1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles.
Uniform Title
Renaissance suppliants (Online)
Alternative Title
Renaissance suppliants (Online)
Subject
  • 1450-1600
  • Reconciliation in literature
  • Emotions in literature
  • Power (Philosophy) in literature
  • European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Supplicatory dynamics : problems, paradoxes, and paradigms -- "Spare this life" : pleading, pardon, and the reader in Vergil's Aeneid -- Pity, mercy, and desire : supplication and erotic psychology in Petrarch's Africa and Rerum Vilgarium Fragmenta -- "Let us shame him with our knees" : constraint and coercion in Shakespeare's Richard II and Coriolanus -- "Thy humiliation shall exalt" : hierarchy and reconciliation in Milton's Paradise Lost -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 0198754442
  • 9780198754442
LCCN
2015956475
OCLC
ssj0001912771
Author
Whittington, Leah, 1979-
Title
Renaissance suppliants [electronic resource] : poetry, antiquity, reconciliation / Leah Whittington.
Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Edition
First edition.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
Chronological Term
1450-1600
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