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Review of Patrick J. McGrath, Early Modern Asceticism: Literature, Religion and Austerity in the English Renaissance

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Open Library of the Humanities
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2021
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Patrick McGrath�s Early Modern Asceticism recovers deep currents of corporeal asceticism within seventeenth-century writing, including by Puritans who nominally reject it as a feature of a superseded Catholic past. His book is powered by wide-ranging engagement with many contemporary scholars and with a wide range of fascinating, often obscure early modern texts on spirituality and religious life. McGrath�s framework generates rich analytical readings of several canonical texts including verse and sermons by Donne, Milton�s A Mask and Lycidas, Andrew Marvell�s �Upon Appleton House,� and John Bunyan�s The Pilgrim�s Progress.
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Philosophy
 Soul
 The Renaissance
 Human sexuality
 Dualism
 Asceticism
 Austerity
 Classics
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English
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https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/56544
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https://doi.org/10.16995/marv.4037