Theologies of pain : literary bodies and afflicted forms in Puritan New England /

"Investigating a broad transatlantic archive of religious literature, historical medical science, and philosophies of sensation from the middle of the 17th-century, this book explores how Puritan America contemplated pain and ascribed meaning to it in writing at this time. Focusing on pain as i...

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Main Author: Hardy, Lucas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Series:New directions in religion and literature.
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Summary:"Investigating a broad transatlantic archive of religious literature, historical medical science, and philosophies of sensation from the middle of the 17th-century, this book explores how Puritan America contemplated pain and ascribed meaning to it in writing at this time. Focusing on pain as it emerged from spaces of inchoate settlement and colonial violence, he provides new understandings of early American nationalism and connected racial tropes which persist today"--
Physical Description:ix, 218 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index.
ISBN:9781350400368
135040036X
9781350400405
1350400408