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Mortal Thoughts - Religion, Secularity, & Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture (Paperback)
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Mortal Thoughts - Religion, Secularity, & Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture (Paperback)
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Since the nineteenth century it has been assumed that the concept
of personal identity in the early modern period is bound up with
secularization. Indeed, many explanations of the emergence of
modernity have been based on this thesis, in which Shakespeare as a
secular author has played a central role. However, the idea of
secularization is now everywhere under threat. The secularity of
modern society is less apparent than it was a generation ago.
Shakespeare, too, has come to be seen in a religious perspective.
What happens to human identity in this different framework? Mortal
Thoughts asks what selfhood looks like if we do not assume that an
idea of the self could only come into being as a result of an
emptying out of a religious framework. It does so by examining
human mortality. What it is to be human, and how a life is framed
by its ending, are issues that cross religious confessions in early
modernity, and interrogate the sacred and secular divide. A series
of chapters examines literature and art in relation to concepts
such as conscience, martyrdom, soliloquy, luck, suicide, and
embodiment. Religious and philosophical creativity are revealed as
poised around anxieties about finitude and contingency, challenging
conventional divisions between kinds of literary and artistic
endeavour. Mortal Thoughts considers incipient genres of life
writing (More, Foxe, and Montaigne) and life drawing (Durer, Hans
Baldung Grien) in relation to dramatic representation and literary
narration (Shakespeare, Donne, Milton). In the process it asks
whether the problem of human identity rewrites historical
boundaries.
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