Renaissance Suppliants: Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation

by Leah Whittington

Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance. It argues that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, taking us to the heart of fundamental questions of politics and religion, ethics and identity, sexuality and family. As a perennial mode of asymmetrical communication in moments of helplessness and extreme need, supplication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198754442
• ISBN13: 9780198754442
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"