Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion

Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion
Author: Naya Tsentourou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351736396

Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton’s poetry and prose, paying particular attention to the ways seventeenth-century prayer is imagined as embodied in sounds, gestures, postures, and emotional responses. Naya Tsentourou demonstrates Milton’s profound engagement with prayer, and how this is driven by a consistent and ardent effort to experience one’s address to God as inclusive of body and spirit and as loaded with affective potential. The book aims to become the first interdisciplinary study to show how Milton participates in and challenges early modern debates about authentic and insincere worship in public, set and spontaneous prayers in private, and gesture and voice in devotion.

Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare

Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare
Author: Ronald Huebert
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1442647914

In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare s time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality."