Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry
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Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry

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Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry

About this book

Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist analyzes the work of prominent early modern writers—including John Milton, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, and George Herbert—whose religious poetry presented parallels between sacramental desire and the act of understanding written texts.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2017
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781442694927
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Critique littéraire européenne

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Desiring Sacraments and Reading Real Presence in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry
  4. 1 Take and Taste, Take and Read: Desiring, Reading, and Taking Presence in George Herbert’s The Temple
  5. 2 Reading Indistinction: Desire, Indistinguishability, and Metonymic Reading in Richard Crashaw’s Religious Lyrics
  6. 3 Loving Fear: Affirmative Anxiety in John Donne’s Divine Poems
  7. 4 Desiring What Has Already Happened: Reading Prolepsis and Immanence in John Milton’s Early Poems and Paradise Regained
  8. Conclusion: Reading Is Love
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index

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