Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture

277 Pages·2013·1.35 MB·English

by  Jennifer Feather

Violent Masculinities
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Violent Masculinities
Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts
and Culture
Edited by Jennifer Feather and Catherine E. Thomas
VIOLENTMASCULINITIES
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
NotesonContributors ix
Introduction:ReclaimingViolentMasculinities 1
JenniferFeatherandCatherineE.Thomas
Part I “DisputeItLikeaMan”:MilitantMasculinities
1 MilitantPrologues,Memory,andModelsof
MasculinityinShakespeare’sHenry V andTroilus
andCressida 23
SusanHarlan
2 Marlowe’sWarHorses:Cyborgs,Soldiers,andQueer
Companions 47
TimothyFrancisco
3 CuttingWordsandHealingWounds:Friendshipand
ViolenceinEarlyModernDrama 67
JenniferForsyth
Part II “TheFaithofMan”:ReligionandMasculine
Aggression
4 Virtus,Vulnerability,andtheEmblazonedMaleBody
inShakespeare’sCoriolanus 85
LisaS.Starks-Estes
5 PriestlyRulers,MaleSubjects:SwordsandCourts
inPapalRome 109
LaurieNussdorfer
6 “WarringSpirits”:MartialHeroismandAnxious
MasculinityinMilton’sParadiseLost 129
KatharineCleland
vi Contents
Part III “FeelitasaMan”:MaleViolenceand
Suffering
7 KingLear’sViolentGrief 151
AndrewD.McCarthy
8 WildCivility:MenatWarinRoyalistElegy 169
CatharineGray
9 OccupyMacbeth:MasculinityandPoliticalMasochism
inMacbeth 191
AmandaBailey
10 MelancholyandSpleen:ModelsofMasculinityinThe
FamousHistoryoftheLifeandDeathofCaptain
ThomasStukeley 213
LaurieEllinghausen
Afterword 231
CoppéliaKahn
Bibliography 239
Index 261
Acknowledgments
While this volume focuses predominantly on forms of violence and
aggression, thanks to the many talents and generous spirits of those
involved,theeditorialprocesshasbeenbothpeacefulandpleasurable.
As editors, we are grateful to have had the opportunity to work with
suchanexcellentgroupofcontributors.Ateverystage,wehavebeen
graced by their intellectual engagement with the subject matter, as
well as their personal enthusiasm and eager cooperation. Their chap-
ters not only make this collection what it is, but also contribute in
important ways to the field of early modern studies. We would also
like to thank the members of the 2010 South Atlantic Modern Lan-
guage Association panel “Violent Masculinities: Early Modern Texts
and Modern Images” and 2011 Shakespeare Association of America
seminar “Violent Masculinities” for their lively participation. Many
of the chapters and ideas from this collection grew out of those two
discussions.
Wewouldfurtherliketothankourhomeinstitutions,theUniver-
sity of North Carolina at Greensboro and the College of Charleston,
for their continued support of our research. In particular, we are
indebted to the College of Charleston’s Department of English for
their financial assistance of this project. Our colleagues at both insti-
tutions additionally have provided a rich environment for developing
our ideas. Among these colleagues, we would especially like to thank
MichelleDowdforherguidanceonandcarefulreadingofpartsofthe
manuscript.
Immense thanks are also due to Brigitte Shull and Naomi Tarlow
at Palgrave for shepherding the project through the various stages of
publication. We also are grateful to Jean Howard and Ivo Kamps for
creatinganimportantvenueforworksonearlymodernculturalstud-
ies.Weappreciatetheirandouranonymousreader’scarefulreviewof
andsuggestionsforthemanuscript.
Finally,wewouldliketoacknowledgethemyriadformsofsupport
thatourfamilyandfriendshaveofferedalongtheway.Toourparents,
viii Acknowledgments
John and SuZanne Feather, and Robert and Beverly Thomas, thank
youforallyourencouragementandlove.Toourbelovedlifepartners,
Audra Abt and William Shelton: without you, this editorial process
might have been more violent. Thanks for being there and keeping
itreal.
Contributors
Amanda Bailey is Associate Professor of English at the University
of Maryland. She is the author of Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and
Personhood in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2013); Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550–1650
(Palgrave, 2010), co-edited with Roze Hentschell; and Flaunting:
Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England (Univer-
sity of Toronto Press, 2007). Her essays have appeared in Criticism,
Renaissance Drama, English Literary Renaissance, andShakespeare
Quarterly, as well as several edited collections. She is currently work-
ing on a book about the relation between dramatic literature and
politicalaffect.
Katharine Cleland is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has written
an article on Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander and George
Chapman’s continuation in Studies in Philology, and an essay on
Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book I, forthcoming in Spenser
Studies. She is currently working on a book project that examines
fictionsofclandestinemarriageinearlymodernEngland.
Laurie Ellinghausen is Associate Professor of English at the Univer-
sityofMissouri—KansasCity.SheistheauthorofLaborandWriting
in EarlyModernEngland (Ashgate, 2008) as well as articles on such
figuresasThomasNashe,ThomasDekker,IsabellaWhitney,andJohn
Taylor “The Water Poet.” Her current project is a monograph on
renegadesandtraitorsontheearlymodernEnglishstage.
Jennifer Forsyth is Associate Professor of English at Kutztown Uni-
versityofPennsylvania.SheistheeditorofCymbelinefortheInternet
Shakespeare Editions and is the textual editor of Henry 6, Part 1 for
the Norton Shakespeare third edition. In addition to textual theory
and practice, her research interests include stylometric approaches to
authorship attribution, especially in cases of collaboration, and the
intersectionofthephysicalandemotionalinearlymodernwriting.