Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion: Bodies at Prayer
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Standard Editions -- Introduction: "Pathetical Prayers" -- 1 Dressing the Devotional Body -- "A Linnen Sock over It": Material Bodies in Church -- Inventorying Dress --...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Taylor and Francis
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Tsentourou, Naya: Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion : Bodies at Prayer. - Milton : Taylor and Francis,c2017. - 9781138710276 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Standard Editions -- Introduction: "Pathetical Prayers" -- 1 Dressing the Devotional Body -- "A Linnen Sock over It": Material Bodies in Church -- Inventorying Dress -- "The Ghost of a Linen Decency" -- Shifting Bodies in Milton's Mask -- 2 "Stale and Empty Words": Consuming Prayers in Eikonoklastes -- Subjects and Audiences in Liturgical Prayer -- Prayer in the King's Closet -- "Wholesome Words" and Manna -- Feeling and Eating Prayers -- 3 Hymns, Sighs, and the Materiality of Prayer in Paradise Lost -- Prayer in Hymns -- Singing Prayers -- Prayer in Sighs -- Sighs, Groans, and Agency -- 4 "As One Who Pray'd": The Iconoclastic Prayer of Samson Agonistes -- Samson's Posture -- Samson's Rhetoric -- Samson's Violent Prayer -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 135173640X |