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Early modern metaphysical literature : nature, custom and strange desires / Michael Morgan Holmes.
Van Pelt Library PR428.S48 H65 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Michael, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- Manners and customs in literature.
- Metaphysics in literature.
- Nature in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- "Early Modern Metaphysical Literature" illuminates now-obscured aspects of cultural negotiation and denaturalization germane to numerous Metaphysical texts. Examining poetry and prose by Donne, Marvell, Lanyer, Crashaw, and Edward Herbert, this book challenges readers to recognize the provocative strangeness of these writings both in their original contexts and today.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Sublunary Things 1
- Authors and their texts 6
- Nature and custom 9
- 1 Strangeness and Desire 19
- 'Metaphysical'?! 19
- Getting Metaphysical 28
- Desire is strange 34
- 2 Edward Herbert: Handsome, Chivalrous, and Strange 44
- Truth, concept, and perception 46
- Wonder-ful Lord Herbert 50
- Poetry, desire, and the limits of perception 58
- Edward and John on the brink 66
- 3 Green Desires: Andrew Marvell and the Pursuit of Pleasure 69
- Sapphic pleasures 71
- Marvell's bent 72
- The convent, marriage, and desire 78
- Into the woods 83
- 'Streightness' 86
- 4 Rich Chains of Love: Desire and Community in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judoeorum 89
- Desire, devotion, and companionship 91
- Love's green shelter 101
- 5 The Science of Possession: Conscience and Hagiology in Early Stuart England 106
- Hagiology and cultural power 109
- Donne and liberty of conscience 112
- Lyric contemplations 122
- Crashaw's Saint Teresa 128
- The afterglow of kings and martyrs 135
- Afterword: Saints and Sinners for a New Millennium 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333760212
- OCLC:
- 44632918
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