Divine Subjection: The Rhetoric of sacramental Devotion in Early Modern England

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Devotion and Desacralization: Writing the Sacramental Subject in Early Modern England 1 One Southwell’s Plaint: Subjection and the Representation of the Recusant Soul 37 Two The Gendering of God and the Advent of the Subject in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw 93 Three Representation and Embodiment in John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions 151 Four “Organs of thy Praise”: Body, Word and Self in Thomas Traherne 181 Conclusion: Sacramental Rhetoric in the Time of the “Wan Ghost”: Excess, Subjection and Spectrality 219 Notes 247 Index 293 ix ...