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THE ETHICS OF FORM:
POLITICS, THE PASSIONS, AND GENRE FORMATION
IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND
by
Rory Gregory Lukins
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
August 2011
Copyright 2011 Rory Gregory Lukins
Object Description
| Title | The ethics of form: politics, the passions, and genre formation in Renaissance England |
| Author | Lukins, Rory Gregory |
| Author email | rlukins@usc.edu;rglukins@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-04-29 |
| Date submitted | 2011-07-11 |
| Date approved | 2011-07-11 |
| Restricted until | 2016-07-11 |
| Date published | 2011-07-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Smith, Bruce R. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lemon, Rebecca James, Heather Rollo, David Mancall, Peter |
| Abstract | This dissertation investigates the social, political, and psychological influences on literary genre formation in early modern England. Taking a cue from Sir Philip Sidney’s discussions of genre in the Defense of Poesie, my project constructs a theory of genre that responds to the interconnection of sociological conditions and theories of psychological affect, which in the early modern period were generally known as “passions.” I argue that writers of genres new to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries first identified particular psychological affects as important to the reception of their work, and in response developed poetic techniques designed specifically to engage those passions. Over time, these techniques became conventions of the developing genre as later writers appropriated them for their own work in that genre. In my study of tragicomedy, utopian fiction, overseas travelogues, and interregnum anthologies known as “fancies,” I examine the work of writers as influential as William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More, Sir Francis Bacon, and John Dryden as well as lesser known figures such as John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, and Margaret Cavendish. |
| Keyword | genre; emotions; affect; renaissance literature; Shakespeare; poetics; the passions |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Lukins, Rory Gregory |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-LukinsRory-70.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | THE ETHICS OF FORM: POLITICS, THE PASSIONS, AND GENRE FORMATION IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND by Rory Gregory Lukins A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Rory Gregory Lukins |
