| Description |
1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
John Donne and asceticism -- A Mask, asceticism, and Caroline culture -- The virgin's body and the natural world in Lycidas -- Upon Appleton House and the impossibility of asceticism -- Self-denial, monasticism, and The Pilgrim's Progress |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
|
|
Religion and literature. |
|
England. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
|
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
|
|
Asceticism in literature.
|
|
Asceticism in literature. |
|
Spirituality in literature.
|
|
Spirituality in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
History.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: McGrath, Patrick J., 1984- Early modern asceticism. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020] 1487505329 (OCoLC)1089984339 |
| ISBN |
9781487531997 (electronic book) |
|
1487531990 (electronic book) |
|
9781487505325 (hardcover) |
|
1487505329 (hardcover) |
|
