Unknowing fanaticism : Reformation literatures of self-annihilation

Unknowing fanaticism : Reformation literatures of self-annihilation / Ross Lerner.

We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term 'fanatic, ' from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable term. Then and now it has been reductively defined to justify state violence and to delegitimi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lerner, Ross (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1450-1600
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Fanaticism in literature.
Politics and literature.
Reformation > Europe.
Renaissance.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
European literature > Renaissance
Fanaticism in literature
Politics and literature
Reformation
Renaissance
Europe
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Receiving divine action: fanaticism and form in the Reformation
  • Allegorical fanaticism: Spenser's organs
  • Lyric fanaticism: Donne's annihilation
  • Readerly fanaticism: Hobbes's outworks
  • Tragic fanaticism: Samson's passion.

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