The Calvinesque - An Aesthetics of Violence in English Literature after the Reformation (Hardcover, New edition)

This study deals with the aesthetic manifestations of one of the world's most fiercely iconophobic and anti-aesthetic religious cultures: Calvinism. It establishes the category of the Calvinesque as an aesthetic of extreme violence against the human body. In close readings of theological documents, literary texts and dramatic speeches, the book examines the extent to which language, literary imagination and theology permeate and condition each other. The book aims at providing new perspectives on literary stylistics after the religious turn in the humanities. By emphasising the pervasive impact of Protestant theology on secular Western culture and by radically questioning some of the narratives that have been crucial to Western (Protestant) identity, this study opens up historical perspectives to contemporary debates about the impact of Calvinism on political discourses, violent entertainment, disciplinary culture and an Anglo-American humanitarian "pornography of pain".

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Claudia Richter
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	176
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-64331-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
LSN:	3-631-64331-4
Barcode:	9783631643310

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