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Sinister aesthetics : the appeal of evil in early modern English literature /

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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, i...

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Main Author: Slotkin, Joel Elliot (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Good and evil in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Representing evil in early modern England
  • "Dreadful harmony" : the poetics of evil in Sidney, Tasso, and Spenser
  • Honeyed toads : sinister aesthetics in Richard III
  • Monsters and the pleasures of divine justice in English popular print, 1560-1675
  • Satanic sensibilities in Paradise lost
  • Milton's sinister God : poetic justice and chiaroscuro in Paradise lost
  • Epilogue: The sinister after Milton.