Reading Humility in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780367880941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 166 str.

Jennifer Clement

Opis

While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Clement argues, it is central to early modern understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to contemporary concepts of the self. Early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading. This study complicates mo

Recenzje

"Jennifer Clement has produced a compelling and well-written case for humility as an important and underappreciated virtue in early modern England." – Emily Cock, The University of Winchester, UK

Spis treści

A foundation of humility.  Breeches parts: humility, pride, and social hierarchy.  Acting (false) humility: Eastward Ho! and the problem of hypocrisy.  Kissing the wound: humility and humiliation in John Donne's Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.  The Queens' humility: Katherine Parr, Elizabeth I, and humble agency.  Thomas Tryon's reformed stewardship.  Conclusion: humility and agency.

O autorze

Jennifer Clement is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Queensland, Australia.