Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue

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Duquesne University Press, 1998 - 279 trang
Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue demonstrates that George Herbert's lyric acheivement was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a family's literary conversation and manuscript exchange. The Herberts, in the words of a contemporary, write the flesh, as they wrote to and about one other. Derived from an exhaustive reading of Herbert family manuscripts, this study interprets a series of texts that have never been studied together before. In addition to George Herbert's works, these texts include: Lord Herbert's philosophical treatises and poems; Magdalen Herbert Danvers's letters and Kitchin Booke; Thomas Herbert's The Storme . . . from Plymouth; Sir Henry Herbert's newsletters and literary works; and the papers of Sir John Danvers, the Ferrars, and other members of the Virginia Company. A keen synthesis of social history and literary criticism, Writing the Flesh presents both a historical examination of the structure of an early modern family and a new domestic understanding of George Herbert's poetry.

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Appendix
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The Churchporch and George Herberts Family
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Magdalen Herberts Table Guests
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Jeffrey Powers-Beck is assistant professor of English at East Tennessee State University. He has performed extensive archival research on Herbert family manuscripts in England and Wales. His articles have appeared in English Literature Renaissance, South Atlantic Review, English Language Notes and other journals

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