Author : Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson
Release : 1999
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 746/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne by : Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson
Download or read book Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne written by Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length feminist study of Donne argues that his sacred subject-position is ambivalently and illustratively invested in cultural archetypes of mothers, daughters, and brides. The chapters focus on baptism, marriage, and death as key moments in Donne's and his culture's construction of the gendered soul.