Daniel Juan Gil

Fate of the Flesh

Secularization and Resurrection in the Seventeenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780823290055
• ISBN-10: 0823290050
• Artikelnr.: 60158759

Autorenporträt

Daniel Juan Gil

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Christianity as Critical Theory vii
Introduction: Secularization and the Resurrection of the Flesh 1
1. Secularization, Countersecularization, and the Fate of the Flesh in
Donne 29
2. Wanting to Be Another Person: Resurrection and Avant-Garde Poetics in
George Herbert 64
3. Luminous Stuff: The Resurrection of the Flesh in Vaughan's Religious
Verse 101
4. The Feeling of Being a Body: Resurrection and Habitus in Vaughan's
Medical Writings 124
5. Resurrection, Dualism, and Legal Personhood: Bodily Presence in Ben
Jonson 148
Epilogue: Resurrection and Zombies 181
Acknowledgments 191
Notes 193
Index 219