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Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion: Bodies at Prayer
Contributor(s): Tsentourou, Naya (Author)
ISBN: 036788738X     ISBN-13: 9780367887384
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $50.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2019
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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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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.