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Reading Humility in Early Modern England
Overview
While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Clement argues, it is central to early modern understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to contemporary concepts of the self. Early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading. This study complicates modern views of an early modern virtue, and challenges the assumption that agency is always defined by resistance.
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- ISBN-13: 9781472453778
- ISBN-10: 1472453778
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: June 2015
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.91 pounds
- Page Count: 166
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