{"product_id":"9780801876431","title":"The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts\u003c\/i\u003e, Cynthia Marshall reconceptualizes the place and function of violence in Renaissance literature. During the Renaissance an emerging concept of the autonomous self within art, politics, religion, commerce, and other areas existed in tandem with an established, popular sense of the self as fluid, unstable, and volatile. Marshall examines an early modern fascination with erotically charged violence to show how texts of various kinds allowed temporary release from an individualism that was constraining. Scenes such as Gloucester's blinding and Cordelia's death in \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e or the dismemberment and sexual violence depicted in \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e allowed audience members not only a release but a \"shattering\"—as opposed to an affirmation—of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarshall draws upon close readings of Shakespearean plays, Petrarchan sonnets, John Foxe's \u003ci\u003eActs and Monuments of the Christian Martyrs,\u003c\/i\u003e and John Ford's \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Heart\u003c\/i\u003e to successfully address questions of subjectivity, psychoanalytic theory, and identity via a cultural response to art. Timely in its offering of an account that is both historically and psychoanalytically informed, \u003ci\u003eThe Shattering of the Self\u003c\/i\u003e argues for a renewed attention to the place of fantasy in this literature and will be of interest to scholars working in Renaissance and early modern studies, literary theory, gender studies, and film theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078303465712,"sku":"9780801876431","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780801876431_p0.jpg?v=1763664731","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780801876431","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}