Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist
Bloomsbury Academic · Print & ebook · January 23, 2025
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- Who it’s for
- Julianne Sandberg traces how the reformed Eucharist shaped writers’ ideas of bodies and literary representation.
- Genres
- 16th-Century Literary Criticism, Renaissance Literary Criticism, Religion in Literature
- Published
- Bloomsbury Academic, January 23, 2025
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Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th century England had very material and embodied consequences.To apprehend the nature of Christ's body-its nature, presence, closeness, and efficacy-for these writers, was also to understand one's own.
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And conversely, to know one's own body was to know something particular about Christ's. Sandberg provides new insights into how Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Aemilia Lanyer use the reformed eucharistic paradigm to imagine the embodied significance of the sacrament for their own bodies, the bodies of their narrative subjects, and the body of their literary work. She shows the significance of this paradigm was for poets and playwrights at this time to represent the embodied self and negotiate how the body was read, interpreted and understood.
Eucharist and the Body
Julianne Sandberg traces how the reformed Eucharist shaped writers’ ideas of bodies and literary representation.
Come here for
- The Eucharist’s influence on ideas of bodily presence, closeness, and efficacy
- Readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Lanyer
Expect
- Attention to the sacrament’s material consequences in sixteenth-century England
- Connections between Christ’s body, the self, and literary work
Where it sits
| 16th-Century Literary Criticism | 59% |
|---|---|
| Renaissance Literary Criticism | 59% |
| Religion in Literature | 49% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Creative Writing
- Authors
- Julianne Sandberg, Emma Mason, Mark Knight
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- January 23, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Creative Writing