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Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
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An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key
Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to
suffering were changing. A deeply original work of scholarship.
Through fine close readings of primary and secondary texts, the
author offers the fullest account we have of the related phenomena
of pain, sympathy, and sensation in early modern culture.Michael
Schoenfeldt, John R. Knott, Jr., Professor of English, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor In late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen
as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During
the earlymodern period, Protestant theologians came to reject these
assumptions, and attempted to redefine and circumscribe the
spiritual meaning of suffering. The rethinking of the meaning of
pain during the early modern era is the central theme of this book.
The author pays particular attention to how literary writers
explored the issue of pain, by placing their work in a broad
context of devotional, theological, philosophical and medical texts
on suffering. In detailed readings of Alabaster, Donne, Herbert,
Crashaw, Lanyer, Spenser, Milton and Montaigne, he shows that early
modern culture located the meaning of pain in its capacity to
elicit compassion in others - yet the nature of thiscompassion was
also fiercely contested. Dr JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN is Lecturer in
English Literature at the University of Leiden.
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