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Reading Humility in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Reading Humility in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture,
Jennifer Clement argues here, it is central to sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century understandings of Christian faith and behavior,
and is vital to early modern concepts of the self. As this study
shows, early modern literary engagements with humility link it to
self-knowledge through the practice of right reading, and make
humility foundational to any proper understanding of human agency.
Yet humility has received little critical interest, and has often
been misunderstood as a false virtue that engenders only
self-abjection. This study offers an overview of various ways in
which humility is discussed, deployed, or resisted in early modern
texts ranging from the explicitly religious and autobiographical
prose of Katherine Parr and John Donne, to the more politically
motivated prose of Queen Elizabeth I and the seventeenth-century
reformer and radical Thomas Tryon. As part of the wider 'turn to
religion' in early modern studies, this study seeks to complicate
our understanding of a mainstream early modern virtue, and to
problematize a mode of critical analysis that assumes agency is
always defined by resistance.
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