{"product_id":"9781487505325","title":"Early Modern Asceticism","description":"Author: Patrick J. McGrath\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487505325\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 18 Oct 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 248 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Asceticism\u003c\/i\u003e shows how conflicting approaches to asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and embodiment in early modern literature and religion. The book challenges the perception that the Renaissance marks a decisive shift in attitudes towards the body, sex, and the self. In early modernity, self-respect was a Satanic impulse that had to be annihilated  the body was not celebrated, but beaten into subjection  and, feeling circumscribed by sexual desire, ascetics found relief in pain, solitude, and deformity. On the basis of this austerity, \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Asceticism\u003c\/i\u003e questions the ease with which scholarship often elides the early and the modern.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919515893918,"sku":"ING-9781487505325","price":118.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487505325.jpg?v=1782813384","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487505325","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}