Volition's Face : Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (340 pages)
- ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern Series .
- ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern Series .
Cover -- VOLITION'S FACE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Personification, Energy, and Allegory -- Chapter Two The Prosopopoetic Will: Ours, though Not We -- Chapter Three Conscience in the Tudor Interludes -- Chapter Four Despair in Marlowe and Spenser -- Chapter Five Love and Spenser's Cupid -- Chapter Six Sin and Milton's Angel -- Epilogue: Premodern Personification and Posthumanism? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
In this book, Andres Escobedo revises the widespread scholarly view that associates literary personification with flat character, constraint, and death; instead, Escobedo demonstrates that premodern readers understood personification as an essentially energetic figure that depicted passion or concept transforming into action.