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 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."-- 

Ämnesord

Religion och litteratur  (sao)

Renässansen  (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Asceticism in literature.  (LCSH)

Spirituality in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Religion and literature  -- England -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Religion and literature  -- England -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Asceticism in literature.  (fast)

Religion and literature.  (fast)

Spirituality in literature.  (fast)

English literature  -- Early modern. (fast)

Asketism  -- i litteraturen (sao)

Andligt sökande  -- i litteraturen (sao)

Religion and literature  (LCSH)

Renaissance  (LCSH)

England.  (fast)

1500-1800  (sao)

1500-1700  (fast)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PR428.R46 (LAC)

820.9/382309032 (DDC)

cci1icc (lacc)