Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture 1st Edition by Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen ISBN 1843843307 9781843843306
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ISBN 10: 1843843307
ISBN 13: 9781843843306
Author: Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen
An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.
A deeply original work of scholarship. Through fine close readings of primary and secondary texts, the author offers the fullest account we have of the related phenomena of pain, sympathy, and sensation in early modern culture.Michael Schoenfeldt, John R. Knott, Jr., Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
In late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During the earlymodern period, Protestant theologians came to reject these assumptions, and attempted to redefine and circumscribe the spiritual meaning of suffering. The rethinking of the meaning of pain during the early modern era is the central theme of this book. The author pays particular attention to how literary writers explored the issue of pain, by placing their work in a broad context of devotional, theological, philosophical and medical texts on suffering. In detailed readings of Alabaster, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Lanyer, Spenser, Milton and Montaigne, he shows that early modern culture located the meaning of pain in its capacity to elicit compassion in others – yet the nature of thiscompassion was also fiercely contested.
Table of contents:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS DISCOURSES OF PAIN
CHAPTER 3: RELIGIOUS PAIN FROM ALABASTER TO DONNE
CHAPTER 4: THE THEOLOGY OF PHYSICAL SUFFERING IN HERBERT
CHAPTER 5: POETRY AND THE PASSION OF CHRIST IN CRASHAW AND LANYER
CHAPTER 6: PAIN, COMPASSION, AND COMMUNITY FROM SPENSER TO MILTON
CHAPTER 7: PAIN AND COMPASSION IN THE ESSAIS OF MONTAIGNE
AFTERWORD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Back Matter
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