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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel Juan Gil is the author of Shakespeare's Anti-Politics: Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh (Palgrave, 2013), Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England (Minnesota, 2006), and many articles on topics including sexuality, the body, sovereign power, communitarianism, literary autonomy, and the sociology of religion. His work has appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Common Knowledge, ELH, SEL, Borrowers and Lenders, Literature and Theology, and a variety of edited collections.
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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
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
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