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Early Modern Asceticism - Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Early Modern Asceticism - Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance (Hardcover)
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In discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan,
Early Modern Asceticism shows how conflicting approaches to
asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and
embodiment in early modern literature and religion. The book
challenges the perception that the Renaissance marks a decisive
shift in attitudes towards the body, sex, and the self. In early
modernity, self-respect was a Satanic impulse that had to be
annihilated - the body was not celebrated, but beaten into
subjection - and, feeling circumscribed by sexual desire, ascetics
found relief in pain, solitude, and deformity. On the basis of this
austerity, Early Modern Asceticism questions the ease with which
scholarship often elides the early and the modern.
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