'One Friendly Flood': Richard Crashaw's Community of Strangers
This article concerns two of Richard Crashaw's oddities: the prevalence of women religious and the over-saturation of fluids. These facets of Crashaw's verse have captivated scholars and already induced interesting work. While scholars tend to emphasise Crashaw's religious and fluid c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 490-502 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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| Summary: | This article concerns two of Richard Crashaw's oddities: the prevalence of women religious and the over-saturation of fluids. These facets of Crashaw's verse have captivated scholars and already induced interesting work. While scholars tend to emphasise Crashaw's religious and fluid content (often in terms of its lyrical excess and its role in religious ecstasy, which is cast as the solitary fancy of the poet), this article analyses Crashaw's content in light of his 'fluid form' in order to complicate an underlying assumption in Crashaw scholarship, namely, that ecstatic states are primarily solitary, typified by the subject's excessive overcoming of self. The task of recasting Crashavian ecstasy will lend added texture to a reconceptualisation of Crashaw's association with foreignness and its operation in promoting a paradoxical Christian communion. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frx005 |