Overview
This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association. The contributors' distinctive new approaches and insights illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggesting new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take. Some chapters explore concrete instances of collaboration or communication between Donne and Herbert, and others find fresh ways to contextualize the Donnean and Herbertian lyric, carefully setting the poetry alongside discourses of apophatic theology or early modern political theory, while still others link Herbert's verse to Donne's devotional prose. Several chapters establish specific theological and aesthetic grounds for comparison, considering Donne and Herbert's respective positions on religious assurance, comic sensibility, and virtuosity with poetic endings.
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Author: Russell M. Hillier , Robert W. Reeder , Kirsten Stirling , Angela Balla
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
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Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.458kg
ISBN: 9781644532270
ISBN 10: 1644532271
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 15 October 2021
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Russell M. Hillier and Robert W. Reeder, Introduction Part I: Negative Theology, Political Theory, and the Lyric Chapter 1: Kirsten Stirling, “Donne’s Negative Theology of the Cross” Chapter 2: Angela Balla, “Prayer as Political Theory: Conscience, Sovereignty, and Natural Law in Donne and Herbert” Part II: Encounters: Exchange and Collaboration Chapter 3: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, “‘Resplendence of women, men’s means to zeal’: Fashioning Female Sanctity in Donne and Herbert’s Commemoration of Lady Danvers” Chapter 4: Kimberly Johnson, “Crossings: Sacramental Signs Across the Verse of Donne and Herbert” Chapter 5: Greg Miller, “Crucifying Craft: A Donne-Herbert Dialogue” Part III: Sin, Salvation, and Assurance Chapter 6: Robert W. Reeder, “‘Extreme Audacity of Penitential Humility’: Devotions 10 and the Donne-Herbert Dichotomy” Chapter 7: Kate Narveson, “Imagining Prayer in Donne’s Devotions and Herbert’s Poems of Complaint” Chapter 8: Danielle A. St. Hilaire, “Recuperating the Incapacities of the Fallen Self in Donne and Herbert: Possibility and Promise” Part IV: Appraisals Chapter 9: Christopher Hodgkins, “Donne’s ‘Comedy of Eros’ and Herbert’s ‘World of Mirth’” Chapter 10: Helen Wilcox, “‘The dot over the i’: How Donne and Herbert Close Their Poems” Appendix: Catherine R. Freis, Richard Freis, and Greg Miller, trans., “Donne and Herbert’s Latin Poems on the Seal of Christ on the Anchor” About the Contributors Index
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RUSSELL M. HILLIER is a professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island. He is the author of Milton’s Messiah and Morality in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Souls at Hazard. He is currently working on projects on Shakespearean drama and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. ROBERT W. REEDER is an associate professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island. He has published articles on Donne and Shakespeare in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, The John Donne Journal, Philological Quarterly, Renascence, and Early Modern Literary Studies.
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