Katrin Ettenhuber

Donne's Augustine

Renaissance Cultures of Interpretation

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive re-examination of John Donne, through his response to the most iconic religious figure in Western theology, Saint Augustine of Hippo. This book significantly enriches our understanding of the reading and writing culture of Renaissance England, and of the religious debates and controversies in the decades leading up to the Civil War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780199609109
• ISBN-10: 0199609101
• Artikelnr.: 33157967

Autorenporträt

Katrin Ettenhuber is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of English. Prior to this, she held an A.H. Lloyd Junior Research Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge; she is also a former Hölderlin scholar of the German National Academic Foundation. She is the editor of volume 5 of the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (OUP, forthcoming) and co-editor, with Gavin Alexander and Sylvia Adamson, of Renaissance Figures of Speech (Cambridge, 2007). She has published a number of articles on Donne's sermons, Renaissance patristics, early modern rhetoric, and seventeenth-century manuscript culture.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: How Donne Read Augustine
* 2: Augustinian Case Studies
* 3: 'Ascending Humility': Augustinian Hermeneutics in the Essayes in
Divinity
* 4: The Bad Physician: Casuistry and Augustinian Charity in
Biathanatos
* 5: 'Medicinall Concoctions': Equity and Charity in the Lincoln's Inn
Sermons
* 6: 'Keeping the Peace': Donne, Augustine, and the Crisis of 1629
* 7: 'The evidence of things not seen': Donne, Augustine, and the
Beatific Vision
* Conclusion
* Appendix
* Bibliography