Imitatio Christi: The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England

Contents

        Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 The Church Eloquent: Thomas Rogers, Philip Sidney, and the Reformed Body Visible 17 The Word Made Text: Thomas Rogers and Early Modern Imitatio 22 The Word Made Flesh: Philip Sidney and the Defence of Poesy 49 2 The Sound of Silence: Elizabeth Cary and the Christian Hero 65 The Tragedy of Mariam: Hagiographical Contexts and Subtexts 69 Cary the (Heroic) Author 94 3 The “Book of Virtue”: Reading the Royal Body in The New Arcadia and Eikon Basilike 107 Reading the Body Natural in The Practice of Pietie 114 Reading the Royal Body in Eikon Basilike 129 Pamela, Charles, and the Royal “Book of Virtue” 140 4 The Church (P)articulate: Breaking the Body Visible in Eikonoklastes 157 Altars, Mothers, Fathers, and Martyrs: Reading the Body in Ceremonialist and Anticeremonialist Polemic 161 Gross Anatomy: Milton Dissects the King’s Book 181 Postscript: A Voice in the Wilderness 195 Notes 201 Bibliography 243 Index 267 vi Contents ...