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The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry Cyril L. Caspar
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caspar, Cyril L. <p>Cyril L. Caspar, Zurich, Switzerland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Lettre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death.
- Literature.
- England.
- Renaissance.
- Pilgrimage.
- Religion.
- Cultural History.
- British Studies.
- Early Modern History.
- History of Religion.
- General Literature Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Death.
- Literature.
- England.
- Renaissance.
- Pilgrimage.
- Religion.
- Cultural History.
- British Studies.
- Early Modern History.
- History of Religion.
- General Literature Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Caspar, The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Cyril L. Caspar, born in 1989, wrote his PhD thesis at the English Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests include early modern English literature and the history of the reformation.
- Summary:
- With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular early modern metaphor that has received little critical commentary. In a rigorous historical and theological reading, Cyril L. Caspar explores five major English poets – John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton – to unveil the poetical potential of the last pilgrimage as a life-transcending metaphor.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter i Contents v Figures vii Acknowledgments ix CONVENTIONS xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Poetics of the Last Pilgrimage 21 Chapter 2: "streight way on that last long voiage" 73 Chapter 3: "a death like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal Life" 137 Conclusion: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress 195 Bibliography 221
- ISBN:
- 9783839442548
- 3839442540
- OCLC:
- 1031968131
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