{"product_id":"fate-of-the-flesh-secularization-and-resurrection-in-the-seventeenth-century-hardback-9780823290048","title":"Fate of the Flesh; Secularization and Resurrection in the Seventeenth Century (Hardback) 9780823290048","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFate of the Flesh\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSecularization and Resurrection in the Seventeenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Juan Gil (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823290048\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.518 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry. As an emerging empirical scientific world view and a rising Cartesian dualist ontology transformed the ancient hope for the resurrection of the flesh into the fantasy of a soul or mind living on separately from any body, literature complicated the terms of the debate. Such poets as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Jonson picked up the discarded idea of the resurrection of the flesh and bent it from an apocalyptic future into the here and now to imagine the self already infused with the strange, vibrant materiality of the resurrection body.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFate of the Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e explores what happens when seventeenth-century poets posit a resurrection body within the historical person. These poets see the resurrection body as the precondition for the social person's identities and forms of agency and yet as deeply other to all such identities and agencies, an alien within the self that both enables and undercuts life as a social person. This perspective leads seventeenth-century poets to a compelling awareness of the unsettling materiality within the heart of the self and allows them to re-imagine agency, selfhood, and the natural world in its light. By developing a poetics that seeks a deranging materiality within the self, these poets anticipate twentieth-century \"avant-garde\" poetics. They frame their poems neither as simple representation nor as beautiful objects but as a form of social praxis that creates new communities of readers and writers assembled around a new experience of self-as-body mediated by poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface: Christianity \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eas Critical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Secularization and the Resurrection of the Flesh   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Secularization, Countersecularization, and the Fate of the Flesh in Donne   29\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Wanting to Be Another Person: Resurrection and Avant-Garde Poetics in George Herbert   64\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Luminous Stuff: The Resurrection of the Flesh in Vaughan's Religious Verse   101\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Feeling of Being a Body: Resurrection and Habitus in Vaughan's Medical Writings   124\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Resurrection, Dualism, and Legal Personhood: Bodily Presence in Ben Jonson   148\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Resurrection and Zombies   181\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   219\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580426711320,"sku":"9780823290048","price":72.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fate-of-the-flesh-secularization-and-resurrection-in-the-seventeenth-century-hardback-9780823290048","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}