Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.

List of contents

Introduction
Early Modern Religious Discourses of Pain
Religious Pain from Alabaster to Donne
The Theology of Physical Suffering in Herbert
Poetry and the Passion of Christ in Crashaw and Lanyer
Pain, Compassion and Community from Spenser to Milton
Pain and Compassion in the Essais of Montaigne
Afterword
Bibliography

About the author

Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen

Summary

An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9781843843306
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-330-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 244 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat; Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)