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The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture This page intentionally left blank The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture Nancy Selleck © Nancy Selleck 2008 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-1-4039-9906-1 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-54762-3 ISBN 978-0-230-58213-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230582132 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.Logging,pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Selleck,Nancy Gail,1956– The interpersonal idiom in Shakespeare,Donne,and early modern culture / Nancy Selleck. p.cm. Includes index. 1. Donne,John,1572–1631—Criticism and interpretation.2. Shakespeare, William,1564–1616—Criticism and interpretation.3. English literature—Early modern,1500–1700—History and criticism. 4. Identity (Psychology) in literature.5. Self in literature. 6. Drama—Psychological aspects.I. Title. PR2248.S34 2008 821'.3—dc21 2008000192 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 For Jörg and in memory of my mother This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction: Other Selves 1 1 Properties of a ‘Self’: Words and Things, 1580–1690 21 2 Persons in Play: Donne’s Body and the Humoral Actor 56 3 Material Others: Shakespeare’s Mirrors and Other Perspectives 89 4 ‘Womans Constancy’: The Poetics of Consummation 123 Epilogue: Subjects, Objects, and Contemporary Theory 162 Notes 168 Index 208 vii Acknowledgments My work on this book has been inspired and sustained by many friends, mentors, and colleagues. At Princeton, Victoria Kahn encouraged and supported its beginnings as a dissertation, provided rigorous and inci- sive guidance, and became a model for me of generous intellectual engagement. Her enthusiasm and support have shaped the book’s development and mine. Michael Goldman was likewise a brilliant and careful mentor and a great example, and I am very grateful to have had the chance to work with him. Lawrence Danson was an invaluable reader and guide on this project as well, and his support also meant a great deal to me. The tremendously engaging intellectual community I found at Princeton was a real boon, and it was epitomized for me by Oliver Arnold and Vance Smith, whose generous insights, conversation, and advice clarified and expanded my thinking early on. A Mellon dis- sertation fellowship at Princeton’s interdisciplinary Center for Human Values was also a rich source of inspiration and insight, and I thank Amy Gutman and the many scholars who shared their work and com- mented on mine over the course of that year. In its early stages, this work also benefited from a Folger Institute seminar with Gail Kern Paster, and I am grateful to Gail and to the seminar members and guests for those formative discussions. More recently, I am deeply indebted to Jonathan Gil Harris for his thorough and incisive reading of the full manuscript, and to Pamela Brown for her repeated readings and encouragement in the process of developing and revising the book. I thank Pam also for starting the delightful and challenging writing group whose commentary, friend- ship, and examples have meant so much to me during the process of revision – Bianca Calabresi, Julie Crawford, Natasha Korda, Tanya Pollard, Rachel Poulsen, Cristine Varholy, and our dearly missed Sasha Roberts. I owe much as well to other generous scholars who have read and listened and offered their thoughts on this work over the years, including Diana Fuss, Martin Harries, Ron Levao, Christina Malcolmson, Doug Mao, Nick Moschovakis, Anne Prescott, David Sedley, Julie Robin Solomon, and Ramie Targoff. For their friendship and always lively interest and conversation I also want to thank Hyungji Park, Julia Lee, Pat Crain, Ann Gaylin, Jonathan Marks, and Irving Kriesberg. My won- derful colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Lowell continue to viii Acknowledgments ix provide an exciting and nurturing working environment, and I am espe- cially grateful to Mary Kramer, Marlowe Miller, Melissa Pennell, Bill Roberts, and Tony Szczesiul for their thoughtful guidance, support, and friendship. My students too have been a constant source of inspiration and insight, particularly Jenah Blitz, Nick Colella, Jim Hurley, Ryan Kernan, John Kneeland, and Dhvani Kortua. To some I owe more than I can say. My friends Suzanne Churchill and Lisa Sternlieb have shared the whole journey of this book, valued it beyond its deserving, edited, collaborated, cajoled, and always inspired with the example of their own work. I thank my whole family too for their strong support and love, especially my late mother for all that she knew and gave, and for her example as a teacher. My greatest debt is to my husband Jörg, whose love and humor have held me up, whose wis- dom has challenged and enhanced my thinking and this book, and whom ‘I throughly love.’
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