John R. Yamamoto-Wilson

Pain, Pleasure and Perversity (eBook, ePUB)

Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Luther's 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought. In order to chart the processes by which discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized during the period from the Renaissance to the end of the seventeenth century, this book examines a number of books on the subject translated into English from (mainly) Spanish and Italian. Combining elements of theology, literature and history, this book provides a fascinating perspective on one of the key conundrums of early modern religious history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317084365
• Artikelnr.: 45095896

Autorenporträt

John R. Yamamoto-Wilson is a retired Professor of the Department of English Literature at Sophia University, Tokyo. He has written extensively on issues relating to early modern translations of Catholic literature and the continuance of Catholic culture in post-Reformation England.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I The Suffering Self: Constructs of suffering in 17th-century England
Suffering and sexuality in Catholic hagiography
Polemic, pornography and romanticism: the subversion of catholic asceticism. Part II The Suffering of Others: Cruelty and compassion
The spectacle of suffering. Part III Suffering and Gender: The sexual politics of suffering
The erotics of suffering and cruelty
The emergence of the dominatrix
Bibliography of works cited
Index.