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James Kearney - The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England - 9780812241587 - V9780812241587
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The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England

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Description for The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England Hardback. James Kearney engages with recent work in the history of the book and the history of religion to investigate the crisis of the book occasioned by the Reformation's simultaneous faith in text and distrust of material forms. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 328 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 672.

In the course of the Reformation, artistic representation famously came under attack. Statues were destroyed, music and theater were forbidden, and poetry was denounced, all in the name of eradicating superstition and idolatry. The iconoclastic impulse that sparked these attacks, however, proved remarkably productive, generating a profusion of theological, polemical, and literary writing from Catholics and Protestants alike.
Reformers like Luther had promised a return to the book, attacking Catholicism as a religion of images and icons. Becoming a religion of the book in the way that Reformers proposed, however, proved impossible: language is inescapably material; books are necessarily ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
Material Texts
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812241587
SKU
V9780812241587
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About James Kearney
James Kearney is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Reviews for The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England
"Kearney's study is a brilliant account of the book in post-Reformation England. By thinking hard and imaginatively about what books were and what books did, about how they were imagined, produced, and used, Kearney provides us with a compelling and often surprising history of a world whose defining theological, epistemological, and psychological characteristics have combined to shape our own."
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