Achsah Guibbory

Returning to John Donne

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining previously published work with an original and substantive introduction and three new essays, the author illuminates Donne's understanding that erotic, spiritual and political issues are often intertwined, and reveals how this understanding resonates in our own times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781409468783
• ISBN-10: 140946878X
• Artikelnr.: 44638025

Autorenporträt

Achsah Guibbory is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA. A past president of the John Donne Society and the Milton Society of America, she edited The Cambridge Companion to John Donne (Cambridge, 2006) and is the author of Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton (Cambridge, 1998) and Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in Seventeenth-century England (Oxford, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Time and History: John Donne: the idea of decay. A sense of the future: projected audiences of Donne and Jonson. Part 2 Love: John Donne. 'Oh
Let Mee Not Serve So': the politics of love in Donne's Elegies. Donne
Milton
and holy sex. 'The Relique'
The Song of Songs
and Donne's Songs and Sonets. Fear of 'loving more': death and the loss of sacramental love. Depersonalization
disappointment
and disillusion. Part 3 Religion: Donne's religion: Montagu
Arminianism
and Donne's sermons
1624-1630. Donne's religious poetry and the trauma of grace. Donne and apostasy. Donne
Milton
Spinoza and toleration: a cross-confessional perspective.