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'Sole author, I': isolation and the devotional self in early modern English literature.

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書名/作者:	'Sole author, I': isolation and the devotional self in early modern English literature.
作者:	Holmes, Caitlin Cornell.
面頁冊數:	252 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-11A(E).
標題:	Literature, English.
標題:	Religion, General.
ISBN:	9781303241123
摘要、提要註:	This dissertation investigates the use of "solitude" in seventeenth-century religious texts as a means to challenge the dominant scholarly conceptualization of "renaissance self-fashioning" as premised upon aesthetic consumerism. In the wake of the closure of the monasteries and other efforts to eradicate English Catholicism throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, solitude was often looked upon with a mixture of skepticism, attraction, and fear. Given these mixed understandings, English Protestants often sought to reappropriate older traditions into a via media, in effect rehabilitating these norms without explicitly Catholic resonances. In contrast to recent scholarly characterizations of Protestant devotional customs as communal, ritualized, and public, I thus argue that English and early American Protestant spiritual literature reveals an intense negotiation with solitude as a form of devotional practice, as Protestantism seeks to celebrate individual relationships with God.
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'Sole author, I': isolation and the devotional self in early modern English literature.
Holmes, Caitlin Cornell.

'Sole author, I': isolation and the devotional self in early modern English literature. - 252 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington State University, 2013.

This dissertation investigates the use of "solitude" in seventeenth-century religious texts as a means to challenge the dominant scholarly conceptualization of "renaissance self-fashioning" as premised upon aesthetic consumerism. In the wake of the closure of the monasteries and other efforts to eradicate English Catholicism throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, solitude was often looked upon with a mixture of skepticism, attraction, and fear. Given these mixed understandings, English Protestants often sought to reappropriate older traditions into a via media, in effect rehabilitating these norms without explicitly Catholic resonances. In contrast to recent scholarly characterizations of Protestant devotional customs as communal, ritualized, and public, I thus argue that English and early American Protestant spiritual literature reveals an intense negotiation with solitude as a form of devotional practice, as Protestantism seeks to celebrate individual relationships with God.

ISBN: 9781303241123Subjects--Topical Terms:

422963
Literature, English.

'Sole author, I': isolation and the devotional self in early modern English literature.
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520 $a By reconstructing contemporary attitudes towards solitude, I articulate a growing conceptual difference between "solitude," better understood as an acceptable devotional and spatial construct, and "isolation," a term reflecting the psychological condition of a believer who is disconnected from his or her spiritual affiliations.
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