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Sinister Aesthetics: The Appeal of Evil in Early Modern English Literature 1st Edition Joel Elliot Slotkin (Auth.)

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Author(s): Joel Elliot Slotkin (auth.)

ISBN(s): 9783319527963, 9783319527970, 3319527967, 3319527975

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 6.79 MB

Year: 2017

Language: English

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319527967
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319527963
Author: Joel Elliot Slotkin

This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters explore a variety of texts, including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Richard III, broadside ballads, and sermons, culminating in a new reading of Paradise Lost and a novel understanding of the dynamic interaction between aesthetics and theology in shaping seventeenth century Protestant piety. Through these discussions, the book introduces the concept of “sinister aesthetics”: artistic conventions that can make representations of the villainous, monstrous, or hellish pleasurable

Table of contents:

1 Introduction: Representing Evil in Early Modern England

2 “Dreadful Harmony”: The Poetics of Evil in Sidney, Tasso, and Spenser

3 Honeyed Toads: Sinister Aesthetics in Richard III

4 Monsters and the Pleasures of Divine Justice in English Popular Print, 1560–1675

5 Satanic Sensibilities in Paradise Lost

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