Men Who Weep and Wail
Masculinity and Emotion in Sidney's New Arcadia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer C Vaught (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00120.x |
| OpenAlex | W2001340128 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
This essay explores the topic of masculinity and emotion, which has generated a considerable amount of scholarly interest over the past decade, in relation to men who weep and wail in Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia (1593). Sidney's romance reflects shifting definitions of manhood toward the end of the sixteenth century when aristocratic men tended to define themselves less as warriors and more as humanists, statesmen, and emotionally expressive courtiers. He alludes to the increasing remoteness of the feudal ideal of the violent warrior by exposing the futility rather than glory of armed violence in some cases and by using the term “armor” in a figurative rather than literal sense. A number of men in the New Arcadia tell stories as well as fight and exhibit a broad range of emotions – desire, rage, pity, and grief. Thoughtful men of action who know when and where to cry are ideal in Sidney's romance
Arcadia · Art · Glory · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Masculinity · Pity · Psychoanalysis · Rage (emotion · Romance · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Emotions Research · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Vested Interests
Worrying about Emotions in History
The family, sex and marriage in England, 1500-1800
Sacred Rhetoric
Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing
The Gendering of Melancholia
Manhood and the Duel
Renaissance Feminism
The Body Embarrassed
The Doctrine of the English Gentleman in the Sixteenth Century
The Usurer's Daughter
Jack of Newbery and Drake in California
Irishmen, Aristocrats, and Other White Barbarians
Emotionology
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
The Crisis of the Aristocracy in Julius Caesar
Language and the Politics of Emotion
Bodies that matter
Unnatural Emotions
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |