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Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen

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Description:"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 ArborIn late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During the early modern 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 this compassion was also fiercely contested.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. To get started finding Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 272

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Publisher: D. S. Brewer

Release: 2012

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Description: "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 ArborIn late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During the early modern 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 this compassion was also fiercely contested.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. To get started finding Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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