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Imitatio Christi - The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Imitatio Christi - The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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In Imitatio Christi: The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England,
Nandra Perry explores the relationship of the traditional
devotional paradigm of imitatio Christi to the theory and practice
of literary imitation in early modern England. While imitation has
long been recognized as a central feature of the period's pedagogy
and poetics, the devotional practice of imitating Christ's life and
Passion has been historically regarded as a minor element in
English Protestant piety. Perry reconsiders the role of the
imitatio Christi not only within English devotional culture but
within the broader culture of literary imitation. She traces
continuities and discontinuities between sacred and secular notions
of proper imitation, showing how imitation worked in both contexts
to address anxieties, widespread after the Protestant Reformation,
about the reliability of "fallen" human language and the
epistemological value of the body and the material world. The
figure of Sir Philip Sidney-Elizabethan England's premier defender
of poetry and internationally recognized paragon of Christian
knighthood-functions as a nexus for Perry's treatment of a wide
variety of contemporary literary and religious genres, all of them
concerned in one way or another with the ethical and religious
implications of imitation. Throughout the Elizabethan and early
Stuart periods, the Sidney legacy was appropriated by men and
women, Catholics and Protestants alike, making it an especially
useful vehicle for tracing the complicated relationship of imitatio
Christi to the various literary, confessional, and cultural
contexts within and across which it often operated. Situating her
project within a generously drawn version of the Sidney "circle"
allows Perry to move freely across the boundaries that often
delimit treatments of early modern English piety. Her book is a
call for renewed attention to the imitation of Christ as a
productive category of literary analysis, one that resists overly
neat distinctions between Catholic and Protestant, sacred and
secular, literary art and cultural artifact.
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