LEADER 04277nam 22006375 450 001 9910480099003321 005 20210715025403.0 010 $a0-8232-8633-9 010 $a0-8232-8388-7 010 $a0-8232-8389-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823283897 035 $a(CKB)4100000007817681 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5739518 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002146458 035 $a(OCoLC)1090539876 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72755 035 $a(DE-B1597)555116 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823283897 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007817681 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnknowing Fanaticism $eReformation Literatures of Self-Annihilation /$fRoss Lerner 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 225 1 $aFordham scholarship online 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2019. 311 0 $a0-8232-8387-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction Receiving Divine Action: Fanaticism and Form in the Reformation --$t1. Allegorical Fanaticism: Spenser?s Organs --$t2. Lyric Fanaticism: Donne?s Annihilation --$t3. Readerly Fanaticism: Hobbes?s Outworks --$t4. Tragic Fanaticism: Milton?s Motions --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWe may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term fanatic, from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable one. Then and now it has been reductively defined to justify state violence and to delegitimize alternative sources of authority. Unknowing Fanaticism rejects the simplified binary of fanatical religion and rational politics, turning to Renaissance literature to demonstrate that fanaticism was integral to how both modern politics and poetics developed, from the German Peasants? Revolt to the English Civil War. The book traces two entangled approaches to fanaticism in this long Reformation moment: the targeting of it as an extreme political threat and the engagement with it as a deep epistemological and poetic problem. In the first, thinkers of modernity from Martin Luther to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke positioned themselves against fanaticism to pathologize rebellion and abet theological and political control. In the second, which arose alongside and often in response to the first, the poets of fanaticism investigated the link between fanatical self-annihilation?the process by which one could become a vessel for divine violence?and the practices of writing poetry. Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and John Milton recognized in the fanatic?s claim to be a passive instrument of God their own incapacity to know and depict the origins of fanaticism. Yet this crisis of unknowing was a productive one. It led these writers to experiment with poetic techniques that would allow them to address fanaticism?s tendency to unsettle the boundaries between human and divine agency and between individual and collective bodies. These poets demand a new critical method, which this book attempts to model: a historically-minded and politicized formalism that can attend to the complexity of the poetic encounter with fanaticism. 410 0$aFordham scholarship online. 606 $aRenaissance 606 $aReformation$zEurope 606 $aPolitics and literature 606 $aFanaticism in literature 606 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRenaissance. 615 0$aReformation 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 615 0$aFanaticism in literature. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.031 700 $aLerner$b Ross$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01048202 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480099003321 996 $aUnknowing Fanaticism$92476334 997 $aUNINA