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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Table of Contents:
- 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