The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity : : Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry / / Cyril L. Caspar.
With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular ea...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lettre
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- CONVENTIONS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Poetics of the Last Pilgrimage
- Chapter 2: "streight way on that last long voiage"
- Chapter 3: "a death like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal Life"
- Conclusion: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
- Bibliography