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9780820703701

Divine Subjection

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  • ISBN13:

    9780820703701

  • ISBN10:

    0820703702

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-07-30
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Summary

"Combines theoretically engaged analyses with historically contextualized close readings to open new ways of understanding the relations between devotional literature and early modern English culture"--Provided by publisher.

Author Biography

Gary Kuchar is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Devotion and Desacralization: Writing the Sacramental Subject in Early Modern England 1(36)
One Southwell's Plaint: Subjection and the Representation of the Recusant Soul 37(56)
Two The Gendering of God and the Advent of the Subject in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw 93(58)
Three Representation and Embodiment in John Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions 151(30)
Four "Organs of thy Praise": Body, Word and Self in Thomas Traherne 181(38)
Conclusion. Sacramental Rhetoric in the Time of the "Wan Ghost": Excess, Subjection and Spectrality 219(28)
Notes 247(46)
Index 293

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