Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England / by Michael Martin.
Each of the figures examined in this study -John Dee, John Donne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead -is concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or experienced. Michael Martin analyses the ways in which the encounter with God is figured among these early modern...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Toward a Criticism of Contemplation; 1 John Dee: Religious Experience and the Technology of Idolatry; 2 A Glass Darkly: John Donne's Negative Approach to God; 3 Love's Alchemist: Palingenesis and the Unconscious Metalepsis of Sir Kenelm Digby; 4 The Rosicrucian Mysticism of Henry and Thomas Vaughan; 5 The Pauline Mission of Jane Lead; Conclusion: The Real Dialectic; Bibliography; Index.