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Citizen-Saints (Paperback)
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Citizen-Saints (Paperback)
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Who is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? These
fundamental questions about group membership and social formation
have been posed repeatedly in political and religious discourses.
Citizen-Saint uses keys works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Milton
to examine the aims, limits, and legacies of classic and modern
citizenship in Western literature. Turning to the potent idea of
political theology to recover the strange mix of political and
religious thinking during the Renaissance, Julia Reinhard Lupton
unveils the figure of the citizensaint, who represents at once
divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception.
Embodied by such diverse personages as Antigone, Paul, Barabbas,
Shylock, Othello, Caliban, Isabella, and Samson, the citizen-saint
is a sacrificial figure: a model of moral and aesthetic extremity
that inspires new regimes of citizenship with his or her traumatic
passage into the public sphere. And these scenes of civic entry
ultimately dramatize the literature of citizenship in both its
evident impasses and its enduring potential.
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