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Unknowing fanaticism : Reformation literatures of self-annihilation /

We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term 'fanatic, ' from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable term. Then and now it has been reductively defined to justify state violence and to delegitimi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lerner, Ross (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Receiving divine action: fanaticism and form in the Reformation
  • Allegorical fanaticism: Spenser's organs
  • Lyric fanaticism: Donne's annihilation
  • Readerly fanaticism: Hobbes's outworks
  • Tragic fanaticism: Samson's passion.