Early Modern Asceticism : : Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance / / Patrick J. McGrath.
In discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, Early Modern Asceticism shows how conflicting approaches to asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and embodiment in early modern literature and religion. The book challenges the perception that the Renaissance mar...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. John Donne and Asceticism -- 2. A Mask, Asceticism, and Caroline Culture -- 3. The Virgin's Body and the Natural World in Lycidas -- 4. Upon Appleton House and the Impossibility of Asceticism -- 5. Self-Denial, Monasticism, and The Pilgrim's Progress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | In discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, Early Modern Asceticism shows how conflicting approaches to asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and embodiment in early modern literature and religion. The book challenges the perception that the Renaissance marks a decisive shift in attitudes towards the body, sex, and the self. In early modernity, self-respect was a Satanic impulse that had to be annihilated - the body was not celebrated, but beaten into subjection - and, feeling circumscribed by sexual desire, ascetics found relief in pain, solitude, and deformity. On the basis of this austerity, Early Modern Asceticism questions the ease with which scholarship often elides the early and the modern. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781487531997 9783110737769 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704747 9783110704532 9783110652062 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781487531997 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Patrick J. McGrath. |