Early Modern Consolations from More to Milton

从莫尔到米尔顿的早期现代安慰

• 批准号: 2889268
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2889268
• 关键词: Early; Modern; Consolations; More; Milton

My proposed project seeks to examine the forms and contexts of consolation in early modern England, roughly spanning the period between More's major works and Milton's final poems. Whilethe classical, patristic, and medieval consolatio has been thoroughly examined, a study of consolation as a literary mode encompassing a variety of genres in early modern England remains to be written. Consolations are remarkably diverse in form, ranging from the brevity of a psalm or sonnet to the length of an epic; and while they may employ seemingly universal arguments, they are also considerably topical texts. Steeped in the political controversies of their time, they straddle thepublic and private spheres, and cut across ideological and confessional boundaries. Common to all consolations, too, is a rhetoricity intensely conscious of its own persuasive limits, which accounts for the many discussions of consolation in rhetorics and formularies from Erasmus to Angel Day. The history of literary consolations in early modern England is therefore also the history of its classical reception, moral philosophy, and religious politics, and my project will trace this history through the study of various genres such as philosophical dialogues, verse elegies, psalm paraphrases, devotional meditations, and biblical epics.

我所提出的项目旨在研究现代早期英国的安慰形式和背景，大致跨越莫尔的主要作品和米尔顿的最后一首诗之间的时期。虽然古典，教父和中世纪的consolatio已被彻底检查，安慰作为一种文学模式，包括在早期现代英格兰的各种流派的研究仍有待书面。安慰的形式是非常多样化的，从简短的诗篇或十四行诗到史诗的长度;虽然它们可能采用看似普遍的论点，但它们也是相当热门的文本。他们沉浸在他们那个时代的政治争议中，跨越了公共和私人领域，跨越了意识形态和信仰的界限。所有的安慰都有一个共同点，那就是强烈意识到自己说服力的局限性，这就是为什么从伊拉斯谟到天使日，在圣经和处方集中有许多关于安慰的讨论。因此，现代早期英国文学安慰的历史也是其古典接受，道德哲学和宗教政治的历史，我的项目将通过研究哲学对话，诗歌挽歌，诗篇释义，虔诚的冥想和圣经史诗等各种体裁来追溯这段历史。