{"product_id":"a-happier-eden-heather-dubrow-9781501780639","title":"A Happier Eden: The Politics of Marriage in the Stuart Epithalamium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Happier Eden\u003c\/i\u003e maps the largely unexplored terrain of the Stuart epithalamium, or wedding poem, focusing in particular on the complex attitudes toward marriage it reflects. Heather Dubrow examines responses to marriage, sexuality, and gender in the works of such seventeenth-century poets as Donne, Jonson, and Herrick, and traces the interplay between generic conventions and the dynamics of marriage. Shedding light on the tensions associated with wedlock in Stuart England, she also considers how they are variously repressed or resolved over a wide range of epithalamia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDubrow's analysis of Stuart marriage departs from earlier accounts in emphasizing the coexistence of competing and conflicting ideologies. Rather than assuming, for example, that Protestant England privileged marriage over celibacy, she demonstrates that an older respect of both celibacy and virginity survived in many reaches of Stuart society. She also charts the interaction between generic traditions and cultural influences. The nature of marriage in Stuart England, she shows, influenced not only which generic norms poets emphasized but also how those norms were interpreted by contemporary readers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough concerned specifically with lyric and narrative poetry that celebrates weddings, \u003ci\u003eA Happier Eden\u003c\/i\u003e also traces parallels between that tradition and other types of drama and poetry. Comparing the epithalamia of Herrick and Jonson, she seeks to redefine the critical relationship between the two. Of special interest is an appendix containing Jackson Bryce's annotated translation-the first in English-of Julius Caesar Scaliger's sixteenth-century essay on the epithalamium (Book III, chapter 101 of his \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather Dubrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501780638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501780639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Heather Dubrow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867202343167,"sku":"9781501780639","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9dc6ae33-d976-4fef-b0ac-806956991989.jpg?v=1747454160","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-happier-eden-heather-dubrow-9781501780639","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}