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Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

English · Hardback

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

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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

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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)

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