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OverviewIn discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, Early Modern Asceticism shows how conflicting approaches to asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and embodiment in early modern literature and religion. The book challenges the perception that the Renaissance marks a decisive shift in attitudes towards the body, sex, and the self. In early modernity, self-respect was a Satanic impulse that had to be annihilated the body was not celebrated, but beaten into subjection and, feeling circumscribed by sexual desire, ascetics found relief in pain, solitude, and deformity. On the basis of this austerity, Early Modern Asceticism questions the ease with which scholarship often elides the early and the modern. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick J. McGrathPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9781487505325ISBN 10: 1487505329 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 18 October 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews""McGrath’s Early Modern Asceticism offers scholars a view that complicates some of the monolithic claims about influential writers and their views on religion and sexuality, which leads to a more nuanced appreciation of the intricacies of these ideas. The extensive knowledge McGrath displays about early modern theology provides an instructive context for understanding some of the variations and contradictions on display in the literature from the period."" -- Adrienne L. Eastwood, San Jose State University * <em>Journal of British Studies</em> * ""Early Modern Asceticism makes important contributions to the study of the religious life of seventeenth-century England and complicates conventional accounts of several of the period’s central authors in valuable ways. It will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and religion, and will be enriching reading for students of the various authors it analyzes."" -- Travis Decook, Carleton University * <em>Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme</em> * Patrick J. McGrath explores the surprisingly varied ways that asceticism persisted after the Reformation; one of the pleasures of this project is the way it upends assumptions about how asceticism persists and who might be attracted to it. - Brooke Conti, Department of English, Cleveland State University Patrick J. McGrath's discussion of asceticism makes a definite, significant contribution to research on the relationship between early modern religion and selfhood - an impressive accomplishment, given that many other scholars have discussed this relationship in other terms. - James Kuzner, Department of English, Brown University Author InformationPatrick J. McGrath is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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