“This Forcèd League”: The Compassionate Body in The Rape of Lucrece.
Two models of compassion coexisted in early modern English thinking: one characterized fellowfeeling as a form of contagion that physically compelled the sharing of passions through the humoral body; the other saw compassion as a moral exercise that required deliberate encouragement and active pract...
| Publicado en: | Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 137 - 168 |
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Iter Canada
Winter2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=177500079&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 177500079 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0034429X 2BC jtl: Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme issn: 0034429X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Winter2024 vid: 47 iid: 1 pid: 78725 pub: Iter Canada artinfo: ui: 177500079 10.33137/rr.v47i1.42008 ppf: 137 ppct: 31 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 12.9MB tig: atl: “This Forcèd League”: The Compassionate Body in The Rape of Lucrece. aug: au: HUTH, KIMBERLY affil: California State University, Dominguez Hills. su: Rape Crimes against women Compassion Poetics Authorship Manners & customs sug: subj: Rape Crimes against women Compassion Poetics Authorship Manners & customs ab: Two models of compassion coexisted in early modern English thinking: one characterized fellowfeeling as a form of contagion that physically compelled the sharing of passions through the humoral body; the other saw compassion as a moral exercise that required deliberate encouragement and active practice. This paper argues that Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece demonstrates the dynamic interaction of these two models, situating Lucrece’s post-rape failures of productive compassionate interaction as the consequence of the changes produced in her body by the force of Tarquin’s passion, imparted to her through the event of the rape. By tracing Shakespeare’s poetic anatomy of the compassionate body through the rhetoric of opposition in the poem, this analysis elucidates how the construction of gender in humoral theory shapes the narration of the rape and exhibits the enduring influence of the humoral body on the period’s understanding of social life. Deux modèles de compassion coexistaient dans la pensée anglaise de la première modernité : l’un caractérisait le sentiment de camaraderie comme une forme de contagion imposant physiquement le partage des passions à travers le corps humoral ; l’autre considérait la compassion comme un exercice moral nécessitant un encouragement délibéré et une pratique active. Cet article soutient que Le viol de Lucrèce de Shakespeare illustre l’interaction dynamique de ces deux modèles, en positionnant les tentatives malheureuses de Lucrèce d’établir, après le viol, des interactions basées sur la compassion comme la conséquence des changements produits dans son corps par la force de la passion de Tarquin, transmise à travers l’acte du viol. En retraçant l’anatomie poétique du corps compatissant de Shakespeare à travers la rhétorique de l’opposition dans le poème, cette analyse cherche à comprendre comment la construction du genre dans la théorie humorale façonne le récit du viol et montre l’influence durable du corps humoral sur la compréhension de la société à l’époque. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme is the property of Iter Canada and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Renaissance & Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme holder: Iter Canada dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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