Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England /

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Each of the figures examined in this study -John Dee, John Donne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead -is concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or experienced. Michael Martin analyses the ways in which the encounter with God is figured among these early modern...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Martin, Michael, 1962 May 3-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
God in literature.
Religion and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Dieu dans la littérature.
Religion et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
18.05 English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern
God in literature
Religion and literature
Literatur
Frühneuenglisch
Gott > Motiv
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Toward a Criticism of Contemplation; 1 John Dee: Religious Experience and the Technology of Idolatry; 2 A Glass Darkly: John Donne's Negative Approach to God; 3 Love's Alchemist: Palingenesis and the Unconscious Metalepsis of Sir Kenelm Digby; 4 The Rosicrucian Mysticism of Henry and Thomas Vaughan; 5 The Pauline Mission of Jane Lead; Conclusion: The Real Dialectic; Bibliography; Index.

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