Competing Melancholies: (En-)Gendering Discourses of Selfhood in Early Modern English Literature
When the shepherdess Urania in Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (1621) enters a cave where she hopes to be alone with her sorrows, she is in for a nasty surprise: there is already another occupant. A man who calls himself Perissus, the lost one, has stretched himself out on a b...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/erea, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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E-rea
2012
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | When the shepherdess Urania in Lady Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (1621) enters a cave where she hopes to be alone with her sorrows, she is in for a nasty surprise: there is already another occupant. A man who calls himself Perissus, the lost one, has stretched himself out on a bed of leaves and is waiting for death. What then ensues is a near-comical quarrel for the right to the cave with each candidate trying to come up with the most convincing claim to suffer the most:“... |
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