Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671

Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671 is a study of the imaginative handling of suffering in Renaissance England literature. Beginning with the Reformed Protestant hermeneutics detailing the redemptive qualities of pain with John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs in 1570, the thesis goes on to trace how the poetry and drama of the ensuing century participate in expanding the availability of meanings for pain, culminating with a consideration of the critique of assigning any redemptive values to the pain of John Milton’s titular protagonist of his closet drama, Samson Agonistes, in 1671.<i><br/></i>

Name dc:type.qualificationname

Doctor of Philosophy

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

Doctoral Thesis

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Queen's University Belfast

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Kennedy, Niall

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Burnett, Mark
• Lamb, Edel

• Suffering
• imagination
• early modern literature
• poetry
• drama
• John Foxe
• Christopher Marlowe
• John Donne
• Margaret Cavendish
• John Milton

Language dc:language

eng

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