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OverviewThis study explores the way Calvinist experientialism provided both a theology and an epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology and informal devotional practice, the Reformation introduced the idea that an individual's experience of devotion did not only entail feeling, but also thought. For early modern English people, bodily experience offered a means of corroborating and verifying devotional truth, making the invisible visible and knowable. This volume maintains that these religious developments gave early modern thinkers and poets a new epistemological framework for imagining and interpreting devotional intention and access. These Reformed models for devotion not only shaped how people experienced their encounters with God; the changing religious landscape of post-Reformation England also held profound implications for how English poets described sexual longing and access to earthly beloveds in the literary production of the period. In placing the works of English poets in conversation with devotional writers such as William Perkins, Samuel Hieron, Joseph Hall, and William Gouge, this book demonstrates how the English Calvinist tradition attributed epistemological potential to a wide range of ordinary experience, including sexual experience. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rhema Hokama (Assistant Professor of English literature, Singapore University of Technology and Design)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.538kg ISBN: 9780192886552ISBN 10: 019288655 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 16 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Introduction, ""Our Senses Do Confirm Our Faith"": Experience and Devotional Certainty in The Winter's Tale and English Reformation Culture 1: Orthodoxy and Marginality: William Perkins, Richard Hooker, and the English Experiential Tradition Part I. Theater and Ceremony 2: Shakespeare's Sweet Boy: Love's Rites, Prayers Divine, and Hallowed Name in the Sonnets 3: Herrick's Players and Prayers: Ceremony, Theater, and Extemporal Devotion in Hesperides and his Noble Numbers Part II. Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm 4: Donne's Speaking, Weeping, Bleeding Images: Iconophobia and Iconophilia in the Holy Sonnets and the Sermons 5: Greville's Iconoclastic Desire: Reformed and Literary Devotion in Caelica and the Life of Sir Philip Sidney 6: Adam and Eve in Bed and at Prayer: Recasting Milton's Iconoclasm in Eikonoklastes and Paradise Lost Works Cited"ReviewsAuthor InformationRhema Hokama received her PhD in English literature from Harvard University and is Assistant Professor of English literature at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where she teaches classes on Shakespeare, Milton, lyric poetry, and global literature. Her academic work has been published or is forthcoming in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Quarterly, Milton Studies, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Multicultural Shakespeare, and Parergon. She recently completed a second book project about how the Reformation gave rise to new frameworks for thinking about national, political, and religious inclusion in early modern England and the Dutch Republic. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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