Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion

Bodies at Prayer

AvNaya Tsentourou

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

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Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton’s poetry and prose, paying particular attention to the ways seventeenth-century prayer is imagined as embodied in sounds, gestures, postures, and emotional responses. Naya Tsentourou demonstrates Milton’s profound engagement with prayer, and how this is driven by a consistent and ardent effort to experience one’s address to God as inclusive of body and spirit and as loaded with affective potential. The book aims to become the first interdisciplinary study to show how Milton participates in and challenges early modern debates about authentic and insincere worship in public, set and spontaneous prayers in private, and gesture and voice in devotion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-10
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367887384

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Religion och tro inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Naya Tsentourou is currently Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, Penryn. She has research interests in Milton and religious lyric, as well as Shakespeare and the history of emotions. She has co-edited the collection Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England (forthcoming with Routledge) with Lucia Nigri.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations and Standard EditionsIntroduction: "Pathetical Prayer" Chapter 1 Dressing the Devotional Body "A linnen Sock over it": Material Bodies in Church Inventorying Dress ‘The ghost of a linen decency’ Shifting Bodies in Milton’s Mask Chapter 2 "Stale and empty words": Consuming Prayers in EikonoklastesSubjects and Audiences in Liturgical Prayer Prayer in the King’s Closet "Wholesome Words" and Manna Feeling and Eating Prayers Chapter 3 Hymns, Sighs, and the Materiality of Prayer in Paradise LostPrayer in HymnsSinging Prayers Prayer in Sighs Sighs, Groans, and AgencyChapter 4 "As one who pray’d": The Iconoclastic Prayer of Samson AgonistesSamson’s PostureSamson’s RhetoricSamson’s Violent PrayerEpilogue