Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature 1st Edition by Anne Cotterill ISBN 0191532061 9780191532061

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ISBN 10: 0191532061 
ISBN 13: 9780191532061
Author: Anne Cotterill

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices that captured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitive yet circumspect as they made their voices heard.

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature 1st Table of contents:

PART I. STRATEGIC SELF-SOUNDING: VOICES RAISED FROM THE DEAD
1. The ‘Motion in Corruption’ of Donne’s Anniversaries
PART II. SOUNDING INTERIOR GARDENS AT MID-CENTURY
2. Marvell’s Watery Maze at Nun Appleton
3. ‘Lights Framed Like Nets’ in Sir Thomas Browne’s Garden
4. Eve’s ‘Grateful Digressions’ and the Birth of Reflection
PART III. STRATEGIC SELF-SOUNDING: MYSTERY, MALICE, AND MASTERY OF A VOICE
5. Feminine Disguise in The Hind and the Panther
6. The Obscure Progress of Satire in Dryden’s Late Preface

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