The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture - N. Selleck

The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture

By: N. Selleck

Hardcover | 15 June 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Sixteenth-century English speakers understood identity in radically different terms than ours.  The Interpersonal Idiom explores the ways early modern usage figures selves as a function of other selves, particularly in the tropes of humoralism, visual perception, and sexual constancy.  Challenging the current critical preoccupation with subjectivity, Selleck argues that Shakespeare, Donne, and other early modern writers often emphatically resist emerging conventions of subjective authority and cast selfhood instead as the experience of others.  Analyzing a diverse range of texts — from treatises on medicine, faculty psychology, and the controversy over women to drama, poetry, and devotional literature — Selleck’s study proposes a new theoretical understanding of identity in early modern culture.
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'Selleck's well-researched, elegantly written, and theoretically sophisticated argument offers a timely reformulation of the self/other dyad in early modern literature and culture. By insisting on the ways the self is objectified in, for, and by the other, Selleck challenges the notion of autonomous selfhood that, even when under erasure in post-structuralist critique, pervades current usages of the term. This is an exciting thesis one that has the potential to remap the terrain not only of early modern but also postmodern accounts of the self.' - Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University.

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