Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton

Herausgeber: Fallon, Stephen M.; Rumrich, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution unsettled traditional conceptions in theology and psychology. Perhaps the soul was neither immaterial nor immortal. Milton and certain of his contemporaries explored new ways of thinking about the soul and its relation to body, and imagined transcendence as including the body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781108432047
• ISBN-10: 1108432042
• Artikelnr.: 60797016

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. 1. The enfolded sublime of incarnate immortality Gardner Campbell;
2. Milton's 'Lycidas', or Edward King's two bodies James Nohrnberg; Part
II. 3. Narcissus in the boudoir: Aretino's Petrarchan postures Gordon
Braden; 4. Carnality into creativity: sublimation in John Bunyan's
'Apology' to The Pilgrim's Progress Vera Camden; 5. Milton's beautiful body
Gregory Chaplin; 6. The fortunate, unfortunate fall and two varieties of
immortality in Paradise Lost Stephen M. Fallon; Part III. 7. The miracle in
Francis Bacon's natural philosophy Gregory Foran; 8. Flesh made word:
pneumatology and Miltonic textuality John Rumrich; 9. Milton beyond
iconoclasm David A. Harper; Part IV. 10. Hester Pulter's brave new worlds
Louisa Hall; 11. Death-weddings or living books: Cavendish rewriting Donne
Dustin Stewart; 12. Paradise Lost and the creation of Mormon theology John
Rogers.