Unknowing Fanaticism : Reformation Literatures of Self-Annihilation /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lerner, Ross (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Renaissance.
Reformation.
Politics and literature.
Fanaticism in literature.
European literature > Renaissance.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Reforme (Christianisme) > Europe.
Politique et litterature.
Litterature europeenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
Reformation > Europe.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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