- Description
- 1 online resource (236 pages)
- Summary
- "In discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, Early Modern Asceticism shows how conflicting approaches to asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and embodiment in early modern literature and religion. The book challenges the perception that the Renaissance marks a decisive shift in attitudes towards the body, sex, and the self. In early modernity, self-respect was a Satanic impulse that had to be annihilated--the body was not celebrated, but beaten into subjection--and, feeling circumscribed by sexual desire, ascetics found relief in pain, solitude, and deformity. On the basis of this austerity, Early Modern Asceticism questions the ease with which scholarship often elides the early and the modern."--
- Uniform Title
- Early modern asceticism (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Early modern asceticism (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- LCCN
- 2019457338
- OCLC
- ssj0002403749
- Author
McGrath, Patrick J., 1984-
- Title
Early modern asceticism [electronic resource] : literature, religion, and austerity in the English Renaissance / Patrick J. McGrath.
- Imprint
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Issued also in electronic format.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1500-1700