Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought

New essays on Thomas Traherne challenge traditional critical readings of the poet.

List of contents

Introduction: 'A lover of all Things ... An Active ey' (Select Meditations I.82): Traherne in Context
Foreword: Traherne and Historical Contingency - Julia Smith
'The Lanthorns Sides': Skin, Soul and the Poetry of Thomas Traherne - Phoebe Dickerson
No Things But In Thoughts: Traherne's Poetic Realism - Kathryn Murphy
Thomas Traherne and 'Feeling Inside the Atom' - Cassandra Gorman
'Consider it All': Traherne's Revealing of the Cosmic Christ in The Kingdom of God - Alison Kershaw
Crossing the Red Sea: The Ceremonial Law, Typology and the Imagination - Warren Chernaik
Sectarianism in The Ceremonial Law - Carol Ann Johnston
Thomas Traherne and the Study of Happiness - Ana Elena González-Treviño
'Innocency of Life': The Innocence of Thomas Traherne in the Context of Seventeenth-Century Devotion - Elizabeth S. Dodd
Afterword - Jacob Blevins

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth S. Dodd
• Assisted by: Elizabeth S Dodd (Editor), Elizabeth S. Dodd (Editor), Cassandra Gorman (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2016
• EAN: 9781843844242
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-424-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Series: 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)