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Fate of the flesh : secularization and resurrection in the seventeenth century /
This book argues that in 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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2021.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface: Christianity as Critical Theory
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Secularization and the Resurrection of the Flesh
- 1. Secularization, Countersecularization, and the Fate of the Flesh in Donne
- 2. Wanting to Be Another Person: Resurrection and Avant-Garde Poetics in George Herbert
- 3. Luminous Stuff: The Resurrection of the Flesh in Vaughan's Religious Verse
- 4. The Feeling of Being a Body: Resurrection and Habitus in Vaughan's Medical Writings
- 5. Resurrection, Dualism, and Legal Personhood: Bodily Presence in Ben Jonson
- Epilogue: Resurrection and Zombies
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author