Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen

Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781843843306
• ISBN-10: 1843843307
• Artikelnr.: 35357657

Autorenporträt

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Early Modern Religious Discourses of Pain Religious Pain from
Alabaster to Donne The Theology of Physical Suffering in Herbert Poetry and
the Passion of Christ in Crashaw and Lanyer Pain, Compassion and Community
from Spenser to Milton Pain and Compassion in the Essais of Montaigne
Afterword Bibliography