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Book SynopsisIlluminates an early modern debate that recognised the troubling extent to which Christian thought had defined the human in terms of two incompatible models of soul. The English writers studied in this book place two prevailing interpretations of the soul's faculties into contact as a way to construct a new mode of Christian agency.
Trade ReviewJames Jaehoon Lee's
The Two-Soul'd Animal is a focused and enlightening analysis of the ways English Renaissance literary writers made productive use of ‘the paradox of the two souls.'"" - Alan Stewart, author of
The Oxford History of Life Writing, Volume 2: Early ModernTable of Contents
- Introduction: The Two-Soul'd Animal
- Chapter 1: The Two Souls as a Problem of Christian Freedom
- Chapter 2: Hamlet's "Soulbending Sovereignty" and Shakespeare's Rhetorical Soul
- Chapter 3: Sir John Davies and the Lyrical Psychology of the English Commonwealth
- Chapter 4: "Be Thou Verbum": John Donne's Printerly Techne of the Soul
- Chapter 5: From Animal to Anima: MIlton's "Living Soul" and hte PRomise of Discursive Reason
- Coda: "Incompletely Human" before Descartes
