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Atoms. --- Physics in literature. --- Seventeenth-century poetry. --- atom. --- atomism. --- creative power. --- early modern literature. --- material indivisibility. --- metaphysical themes. --- poetic imagination. --- spiritual motivation.

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In the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry. As an emerging empirical scientific world view and a rising Cartesian dualist ontology transformed the ancient hope for the resurrection of the flesh into the fantasy of a soul or mind living on separately from any body, literature complicated the terms of the debate. Such poets as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Jonson picked up the discarded idea of the resurrection of the flesh and bent it from an apocalyptic future into the here and now to imagine the self already infused with the strange, vibrant materiality of the resurrection body.Fate of the Flesh explores what happens when seventeenth-century poets posit a resurrection body within the historical person. These poets see the resurrection body as the precondition for the social person’s identities and forms of agency and yet as deeply other to all such identities and agencies, an alien within the self that both enables and undercuts life as a social person. This perspective leads seventeenth-century poets to a compelling awareness of the unsettling materiality within the heart of the self and allows them to re-imagine agency, selfhood, and the natural world in its light. By developing a poetics that seeks a deranging materiality within the self, these poets anticipate twentieth-century “avant-garde” poetics. They frame their poems neither as simple representation nor as beautiful objects but as a form of social praxis that creates new communities of readers and writers assembled around a new experience of self-as-body mediated by poetry.

English poetry --- Materialism in literature. --- Religion and literature --- Resurrection in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Avant-garde. --- Donne, John. --- Dualism. --- Early Modern. --- Herbert, George. --- Jonson, Ben. --- Materialism. --- Metaphysical poetry. --- Poetry. --- Religion. --- Renaissance. --- Secular. --- Secularization. --- Seventeenth-Century. --- Sexuality.

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"Prayer divided seventeenth-century England. Anglican Conformists such as Lancelot Andrewes and Jeremy Taylor upheld set forms of prayer in the Book of Common Prayer, a book designed to unite the nation in worship. Puritan Reformers and Dissenters such as John Milton and John Bunyan rejected the prayer book and advocated for extemporaneous or free prayer. In 1645, the mainly Puritan Long Parliament proscribed the Book of Common Prayer and dismantled the Anglican Church in the midst of civil war. This led Anglican poets and liturgists to defend their tradition with energy and erudition in print. In 1662, with monarchy restored, the mainly Anglican Cavalier Parliament reinstated the Church and its prayer book to impose religious uniformity. This galvanized English Nonconformity and Dissent and gave rise to a vibrant literary counter-tradition. Addressing this fascinating history, David Gay examines competing claims to spiritual gifts and graces in polemical texts and their influence on prayer and poetry. Amid the contention of differing voices, the disputed connection of poetry and prayer, imagination and religion, emerges as a central tension in early modern literature and culture."--

Christian poetry, English --- English literature --- Polemics in literature. --- Prayer in literature. --- Prayer --- Religion and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Vaughan, Henry, --- Taylor, Jeremy, --- Milton, John, --- Herbert, George, --- Bunyan, John, --- Andrewes, Lancelot, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1500-1700 --- England. --- Anglican. --- Book of Common Prayer. --- Dissent and Nonconformity. --- Jeremy Taylor. --- John Bunyan. --- John Milton. --- Lancelot Andrewes. --- Puritan. --- Quakers. --- Renaissance. --- history of prayer. --- poetry and liturgy. --- seventeenth century.

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This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men's travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic--some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian's writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge's travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women's travel therein across the long eighteenth century.

Travelers' writings, English --- History and criticism. --- seafaring, pirates, women writers, travel, transatlanticism, late seventeenth century, mid-nineteenth-century, transatlantic women travelers, Atlantic, mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, freedom, subjugation, capture, enslavement, historical, national, geographic location, racial, ethnic identities, The Female American, The Woman of Colour, transatlantic world, Intersectional, Sierra Leone, eighteenth century, global travel, local preservation, climate, population, Settler Cultures, Newfoundland, High seas, Female Suffering, Matriarchal Authority, England, Gendered Politics, Jane Austen, Maria Nugent, Aphra Behn, Maria Sibylla Merian, Anna Maria Falconbridge, Flora Tristan, Frances Calderon de la Barca, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Unca Eliza Winkfield, Leonora Sansay, Phebe Gibbes, Susan Smith, Mary Elizabeth Brenton, Anne Aplin, Henrietta Prescott, Frances Simpson, Mrs Selby, Emma Corbett, Imoinda, Olivia Fairfield, Sophia Goldborne.