{"product_id":"early-modern-asceticism-literature-religion-and-austerity-in-the-english-renaissance-hardback-9781487505325","title":"Early Modern Asceticism; Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance (Hardback) 9781487505325","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEarly Modern Asceticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatrick J. McGrath (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487505325\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McGrath\u0026amp;#x2019;s Early Modern Asceticism offers scholars a view that complicates some of the monolithic claims about influential writers and their views on religion and sexuality, which leads to a more nuanced appreciation of the intricacies of these ideas. The extensive knowledge McGrath displays about early modern theology provides an instructive context for understanding some of the variations and contradictions on display in the literature from the period.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Adrienne L. Eastwood, San Jose State University (\u003cem\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Asceticism \u003c\/i\u003emakes important contributions to the study of the religious life of seventeenth-century England and complicates conventional accounts of several of the period\u0026amp;#x2019;s central authors in valuable ways. It will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and religion, and will be enriching reading for students of the various authors it analyzes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Travis Decook, Carleton University (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance and Reformation \/ Renaissance et Réforme\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Asceticism\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Asceticism\u003c\/i\u003e questions the ease with which scholarship often elides the early and the modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. John Donne and Asceticism      \u003cbr\u003e2. \u003cem\u003eA Mask\u003c\/em\u003e, Asceticism, and Caroline Culture    \u003cbr\u003e3. The Virgin\u0026amp;#x2019;s Body and the Natural World in \u003cem\u003eLycidas\u003c\/em\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e4. \u003cem\u003eUpon Appleton House \u003c\/em\u003eand the Impossibility of Asceticism  \u003cbr\u003e5. Self-Denial, Monasticism, and \u003cem\u003eThe Pilgrim\u0026amp;#x2019;s Progress\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595470336280,"sku":"9781487505325","price":40.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/early-modern-asceticism-literature-religion-and-austerity-in-the-english-renaissance-hardback-9781487505325","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}