The two-soul'd animal : early modern literatures of the classical and christian souls /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lee, James Jaehoon (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Soul in literature. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Two-Soul'd Animal; Chapter 1. The Two Souls as a Problem of Christian Freedom; Chapter 2. Hamlet's ""Soulbending Sovereignty"" and Shakespeare's Rhetorical Soul; Chapter 3. Sir John Davies and the Lyrical Psychology of the English Commonwealth; Chapter 4. ""Be Thou Verbum"": John Donne's Printerly Techne of the Soul; Chapter 5. From Animal to Anima: Milton's ""Living Soul"" and the Promise of Discursive Reason; Coda. ""Incompletely Human"" before Descartes; Notes; Index