Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation Poetry, Public Worship, and Popular Divinity

by Hokama, Rhema

• ISBN13: 9780192886552
• ISBN10: 019288655X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-06-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Rhema Hokama, Assistant Professor of English literature, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Rhema Hokama received her PhD in English literature from Harvard University and is Assistant Professor of English literature at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where she teaches classes on Shakespeare, Milton, lyric poetry, and global literature. Her academic work has been published or is forthcoming in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Quarterly, Milton Studies, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Multicultural Shakespeare, and Parergon. She recently completed a second book project about how the Reformation gave rise to new frameworks for thinking about national, political, and religious inclusion in early modern England and the Dutch Republic.

Table of Contents

Introduction, "Our Senses Do Confirm Our Faith": Experience and Devotional Certainty in The Winter's Tale and English Reformation Culture
1. Orthodoxy and Marginality: William Perkins, Richard Hooker, and the English Experiential Tradition
Part I. Theater and Ceremony
2. Shakespeare's Sweet Boy: Love's Rites, Prayers Divine, and Hallowed Name in the Sonnets
3. Herrick's Players and Prayers: Ceremony, Theater, and Extemporal Devotion in Hesperides and his Noble Numbers
Part II. Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm
4. Donne's Speaking, Weeping, Bleeding Images: Iconophobia and Iconophilia in the Holy Sonnets and the Sermons
5. Greville's Iconoclastic Desire: Reformed and Literary Devotion in Caelica and the Life of Sir Philip Sidney
6. Adam and Eve in Bed and at Prayer: Recasting Milton's Iconoclasm in Eikonoklastes and Paradise Lost
Works Cited