Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England / Sophie Read.

Author
Read, Sophie, 1978- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Series
Ideas in context ; 104. [More in this series]
Summary note
The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a literal to a figurative understanding of the phrase 'this is my body' exerted a powerful imaginative pull on successive generations. To illustrate this, she examines in detail the work of Southwell, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan and Milton, who between them represent a broad range of doctrinal and confessional positions, from the Jesuit Southwell to Milton's heterodox Puritanism. Individually, each chapter examines how Eucharistic ideas are expressed through a particular rhetorical trope; together, they illuminate the continued importance of the Eucharist's transformation well into the seventeenth century - not simply as a matter of doctrine, but as a rhetorical and poetic mode.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Southwell and paradox
  • Donne and punning
  • Herbert and Metanoia
  • Crashaw and metonymy
  • Vaughan and synecdoche
  • Milton and metaphor.
Other title(s)
Eucharist & the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
ISBN
  • 1-139-61124-0
  • 1-107-23809-9
  • 1-139-60940-8
  • 1-139-61310-3
  • 1-139-62240-4
  • 1-283-98672-8
  • 1-139-62612-4
  • 1-139-50707-9
  • 1-139-61682-X
OCLC
  • 826412493
  • 835209569
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