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- Title
SAVING EDWARD TAYLOR'S PURSE: MASCULINE DEVOTION IN THE PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS.
- Authors
Hitchcock, Nathan
- Abstract
The article underscores that Edward Taylor's "Preparatory Meditations," composed of private poems designed to temper himself for reception of the Lord's Supper, lounges penitence in distinctively sexed language. It also mentions that before God, Taylor enacts an inner liturgy of submission and insemination wherein he achieves authenticity. Moreover, this article extends Ivy Schweitzer's work by focusing on the andrological imagery of circumcision and emasculation, which are considered expressions of abnegation through which Taylor reinforces the authority of his manly self.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); POETICS; MASCULINITY; MASCULINE identity; CIRCUMCISION; CASTRATION; PSYCHOLOGY of men; VERSE drama; TAYLOR, Edward, 1642-1729; SCHWEITZER, Ivy
- Publication
Literature & Theology, 2008, Vol 22, Issue 3, p339
- ISSN
0269-1205
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/litthe/frn038