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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
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This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in
literature spanning the tenth century and the age of Shakespeare.
All people, according to John Donne, 'constantly beleeve' that they
have an immortal soul. But he also reflects that in fact there is
nothing 'so well established as constrains us to beleeve, both that
the soul is immortall, and that every particular man hath such a
soul'. In understanding the question of man's disembodied part as
at once fundamental and fundamentally uncertain he was entirely of
his time, and Imagining the Soul in Premodern Literature considers
this fraught, shifting, yet uniquely compelling entity in the
context of the literary forms and effects involved in its
representation. Gruesome medieval dialogues between damned souls
and worm-eaten bodies; verse and prose works by Donne, Rene
Descartes, Margaret Cavendish and Andrew Marvell; a profusion of
sonnet sequences, sermons, manuals of instruction and travelogues;
Hamlet and its natural philosophical thinking about the apparently
disembodied soul haunting Elsinore: these chapters range across all
this and more, offering a rigorous yet accessible account of an
essential aspect of premodern literature that will be of interest
to scholars, students and the general reader alike.
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