Theologies of pain: literary bodies and afflicted forms in Puritan New England
"Investigating a broad transatlantic archive of religious literature, historical medical science, and philosophies of sensation from the middle of the 17th-century, this book explores how Puritan America contemplated pain and ascribed meaning to it in writing at this time. Focusing on pain as i...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York
Bloomsbury Academic
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | New directions in religion and literature
Vol. 33 |
| Further subjects: | B
American literature
Puritan authors
History and criticism
B Pain in literature B Puritans (New England) Intellectual life B Puritans in literature B Christianity and literature (United States) History B Literary Criticism B American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism |
| Summary: | "Investigating a broad transatlantic archive of religious literature, historical medical science, and philosophies of sensation from the middle of the 17th-century, this book explores how Puritan America contemplated pain and ascribed meaning to it in writing at this time. Focusing on pain as it emerged from spaces of inchoate settlement and colonial violence, he provides new understandings of early American nationalism and connected racial tropes which persist today"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | 218 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-1-350-40036-8 978-1-350-40040-5 |
