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The Selfe Undone: Individualism and Relationality in John Donne and Aemilia Lanyer / Constance Furey in Harvard Theological Review, 99/4 (October 2006)
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Titre : The Selfe Undone: Individualism and Relationality in John Donne and Aemilia Lanyer Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Constance Furey, Auteur Année de publication : 2007 Article en page(s) : pp. 469-486. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : There is something right about the hoary old claim that Protestantism spawned individualism. It has been challengedfrom all sides: by those who argue the reverse, by historians of religion who point out that introspective piety was not unique to the early modern period, and by scholars who demonstrate that early Protestants were deeply invested in ecclesiology and communal rituals. Yet this claim—even though clunky and inadequate—remains important, not least because it highlights an enduring link between the way we interpret early Protestant texts and the way we understand individualism today. Consider John Donne's famous denial of isolation, written nearly four hundred years ago: “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe.” This statement compels us because it refutes what often feels irrefutable: that each person is, essentially, a solitary being, and that, while this existential state may be ameliorated, it is an unavoidable fact of life.
in Harvard Theological Review > 99/4 (October 2006) . - pp. 469-486.[article] The Selfe Undone: Individualism and Relationality in John Donne and Aemilia Lanyer [texte imprimé] / Constance Furey, Auteur . - 2007 . - pp. 469-486.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Harvard Theological Review > 99/4 (October 2006) . - pp. 469-486.
Résumé : There is something right about the hoary old claim that Protestantism spawned individualism. It has been challengedfrom all sides: by those who argue the reverse, by historians of religion who point out that introspective piety was not unique to the early modern period, and by scholars who demonstrate that early Protestants were deeply invested in ecclesiology and communal rituals. Yet this claim—even though clunky and inadequate—remains important, not least because it highlights an enduring link between the way we interpret early Protestant texts and the way we understand individualism today. Consider John Donne's famous denial of isolation, written nearly four hundred years ago: “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe.” This statement compels us because it refutes what often feels irrefutable: that each person is, essentially, a solitary being, and that, while this existential state may be ameliorated, it is an unavoidable fact of life.