Author: Sir William DawesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Duties of the Closet. Being an Earnest Exhortation to Private Devotion
Author: Sir William DawesThe Duties of the Closet. Being an Earnest Exhortation to Private Devotion ... The Sixth Edition, Corrected
Author: Sir William DAWESCloset Devotions
Author: Richard RambussPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Religion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of "sacred eroticism," the literary or artistic expression of devotional feelings in erotic terms that has repeatedly occurred over the centuries. Rather than dismissing such expression as mere convention, Rambuss takes it seriously as a form of erotic discourse, one that gives voice to desires that, outside the sphere of sacred rapture, would otherwise be deemed taboo. Through startling rereadings of works ranging from the devotional verse of the metaphysical poets (Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Traherne) to photographer Andres Serrano's controversial "Piss Christ," from Renaissance religious iconography to contemporary gay porn, Rambuss uncovers the highly charged erotic imagery that suffuses religious devotional art and literature. And he explores one of Christian culture's most guarded (and literal) closets--the prayer closet itself, a privileged space where the vectors of same-sex desire can travel privately between the worshiper and his or her God. Elegantly written and theoretically astute, Closet Devotions illuminates the ways in which sacred Christian devotion is homoeroticized, a phenomenon that until now has gone unexplored in current scholarship on religion, the body, and its passions. This book will attract readers across a wide array of disciplines, including gay and lesbian studies, literary theory and criticism, Renaissance studies, and religion.
Graveyard Poetry
Author: Eric ParisotPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317124901
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
While immensely popular in the eighteenth century, current critical wisdom regards graveyard poetry as a short-lived fad with little lasting merit. In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Eric Parisot suggests, to the contrary, that graveyard poetry is closely connected to the mid-century aesthetic revision of poetics. Graveyard poetry's contribution to this paradigm shift, Parisot argues, stems from changing religious practices and their increasing reliance on printed material to facilitate private devotion by way of affective and subjective response. Coupling this perspective with graveyard poetry’s obsessive preoccupation with death and salvation makes visible its importance as an articulation or negotiation between contemporary religious concerns and emerging aesthetics of poetic practice. Parisot reads the poetry of Robert Blair, Edward Young and Thomas Gray, among others, as a series of poetic experiments that attempt to accommodate changing religious and reading practices and translate religious concerns into parallel reconsiderations of poetic authority, agency, death and afterlife. Making use of an impressive body of religious treatises, sermons and verse that ground his study in a precise historical moment, Parisot shows graveyard poetry's strong ties to seventeenth-century devotional texts, and most importantly, its influential role in the development of late eighteenth-century sentimentalism and Romanticism.
The Great Duty of Communicating Explain'd and Enforc'd. The Objections Against it Answer'd, and the Necessary Preparation for it Stated. With Devotions to be Us'd Before, At, and After, the Lord's Supper. By the Author of The Duties of the Closet [i.e. Sir W. Dawes]. The Eighth Edition
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Author: Sir William DAWESThe Queen a Nursing Mother. A Sermon Preached on ... the Anniversary Day of Her Majesty's ... Accession
Author: Richard Stephens (Rector of Stock Gailard.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Serious Discourse
Author: William May (Rector of Wakes Colne.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709 A.D.: 1697-1709; and Easter term 1711. Text and index
Author: Edward ArberPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Religion
Author: A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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