Devotional experience and erotic knowledge in the literary culture of the English reformation : poetry, public worship, and popular divinity /
This book explores the ways in which Calvinist experientialism functioned as both theology and epistemology in the poetry of five early modern English poets: William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, John Donne, Fulke Greville, and John Milton. In both official church ecclesiology and informal devotional...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "Our senses do confirm our faith" : experience and devotional certainty in The winter's tale and English Reformation culture
- Orthodoxy and marginality : William Perkins, Richard Hooker, and the English experiential tradition
- Theater and ceremony. Shakespeare's sweet boy : love's rites, prayers divine, and hallowed name in the sonnets
- Herrick's players and prayers : ceremony, theater, and extemporal devotion in Hesperides and his noble numbers
- Images, idolatry, and iconoclasm. Donne's speaking, weeping, bleeding images : iconophobia and iconophilia in the Holy sonnets and the sermons
- Greville's iconoclastic desire : reformed and literary devotion in Caelica and The life of Sir Philip Sidney
- Adam and Eve in bed and at prayer : recasting Milton's iconoclasm in Eikonoklastes and Paradise lost.