Description: 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.
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EAN: 9781487505325
UPC: 9781487505325
ISBN: 9781487505325
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Format: Hardback, 248 pages
Author: Patrick J. McGrath
Book Title: Early Modern Asceticism: Literature, Religion, and
Item Height: 2.3 cm
Item Length: 23.1 cm
Item Weight: 0.48 kg
Item Width: 15.5 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
