Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist / Julianne Sandberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandberg, Julianne, author.

Series:

New Directions in Religion and Literature.

New Directions in Religion and Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.

Christianity and literature.

Human body in literature.

Lord's Supper in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th century England had very material and embodied consequences. To apprehend the nature of Christ's body-its nature, presence, closeness, and efficacy-for these writers, was also to understand one's own. And conversely, to know one's own body was to know something particular about Christ's. Sandberg provides new insights into how Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Aemilia Lanyer use the reformed eucharistic paradigm to imagine the embodied significance of the sacrament for their own bodies, the bodies of their narrative subjects, and the body of their literary work. She shows the significance of this paradigm was for poets and playwrights at this time to represent the embodied self and negotiate how the body was read, interpreted and understood.

Contents:

Introduction Chapter 1: The Body and Theology of a Reformed Eucharist Chapter 2: Eucharistic Comedy and Shakespeare's Theatrical Bodies Chapter 3: Spenser's 'massy mould' and the Body of Allegory Chapter 4: Aemilia Lanyer's Communion of Readers Chapter 5: Reading John Donne's Body Conclusion Index

ISBN:

9781350452923

1350452920

OCLC:

1463572993