Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-266) and index.
Contents:
Early modern religious discourses of pain -- Religious pain from Alabaster to Donne -- The theology of physical suffering in Herbert -- Poetry and the Passion of Christ in Crashaw and Lanyer -- Pain, compassion, and community from Spenser to Milton -- Pain and compassion in the Essais of Montaigne.
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