Francesca Cioni

Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses textual and material evidence -- in poetry, prayers, physiologies, sermons, church buildings and monuments, manuscript diaries and notebooks -- to explore how material things held spiritual meaning in George Herbert's poetry, and to reflect on scholarly approaches to matter and form in devotional poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198874409
• ISBN-10: 0198874405
• Artikelnr.: 68505312

Autorenporträt

Francesca Cioni completed her PhD on materiality in George Herbert's works in 2020 and was appointed as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. She has since worked as a cataloguer at the British Library while undertaking independent research on early modern English literary and devotional cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: The Body at Prayer
* 'Lost in flesh': The body, prayer, and poetry in The Temple
* 1: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations: Praying voices in The
Temple
* 2: 'My heart hath store, write there': Hearts and poetry in The
Temple
* 3: 'Down with thy knees, up with thy voice': Bodily prayer in The
Temple
* Part II: The Church Building
* 'A braver Palace then before': The Temple and the church building
* 4: 'All show'd the builders, crav'd the seers care': Building sacred
space in The Temple
* 5: 'Betwixt this world and that of grace': Living on land in The
Temple and The Country Parson
* 6: 'Dissolution sure doth best discern': Commemoration in the church
and The Temple
* Coda: 'The hand you stretch/ Is mine to write': Devotion and the
material text