Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton : Fashioning the Self after Jeremiah / Reuben Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez, Reuben.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Typology (Theology) in literature.

Typology (Theology) in art.

Jeremiah (Biblical prophet).

Jeremiah.

Idols and images in literature.

Idols and images in art.

Prophets in literature.

Prophets in art.

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Bible--In art.

Art and literature--England--History--17th century.

Art and literature.

English literature--17th century--History and criticism.

History.

England.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

x, 275 pages

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

During the Renaissance, the prophet Jeremiah appeared often in secular and religious popular culture as well as mainstream culture. This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashioned himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Sluter's sculpture The Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel. Reuben Sánchez argues that these authors fashion themselves in their texts so that their spiritual lives might parallel the narrative arc of a biblical type with the hope that the reader will turn toward God and thereby avoid the fate of the biblical Israelites. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 "The Sad Prophet Jeremiah" as an Icon of Renaissance Melancholy 1

Part I Rembrandt's Jeremiah: Donne and Learning How to Be a Preacher

2 "I Turne My Back to Thee, but to Receive / Corrections": Donne and the Art of Convetere in The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the Most Part According to Tremelius, and "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward" 27

3 "First the Burden, and Then the Ease": Donne and the Art of Convetere in the Sermon on Lamentations 3.1 and in the Letter to His Mother 53

Part II Sluter's Jeremiah: Herbert and Learning How to Visualize the Heart

4 "My Heart Hath Store, Write There": Writing on and in the Heart in Herbert's The Temple 71

5 "Then Was My Heart Broken, as Was My Verse": Visualizing the Heart in The Temple 105

Part III Michelangelo's Jeremiah: Milton and Learning How to Be a Prophet

6 "With New Acquist / of True Experience": The Failed Revolutionary in the Letter to Heimbach and Samson Agonistes 137

7 "And Had None to Cry to, but with the Prophet, O Earth, Earth, Earth!": Style, Witnessing, and Mythmaking in Milton's The Readie and Easie Way 165

8 "As a Burning Fire Shut Up in My Bones": From Polemic to Prophecy in The Reason of Church Government and The Readie and Easie Way 187

9 "Unapocryphall Vision": Jeremiah as Exemplary Model for Donne, Herbert, and Milton 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137397799

1137397799

OCLC:

867769791