Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion: Bodies at Prayer Contributor(s): Tsentourou, Naya (Author) |
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ISBN: 036788738X ISBN-13: 9780367887384 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Religion - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Religion |
Dewey: 821.4 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.55 lbs) 176 pages |
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Publisher Description: Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton's poetry and prose, paying particular attention to the ways seventeenth-century prayer is imagined as embodied in sounds, gestures, postures, and emotional responses. Naya Tsentourou demonstrates Milton's profound engagement with prayer, and how this is driven by a consistent and ardent effort to experience one's address to God as inclusive of body and spirit and as loaded with affective potential. The book aims to become the first interdisciplinary study to show how Milton participates in and challenges early modern debates about authentic and insincere worship in public, set and spontaneous prayers in private, and gesture and voice in devotion. |