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Postcritical Theory? Demanding The Possible, Jeff Pruchnic

English Faculty Research Publications

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Wendy Brown. (New York: Zone, 2010. Pp. 168, 10 illustrations. $25.95 cloth.)

Cosmopolitics I by Isabelle Stengers. Translated by Robert Bononno. (Posthumanities Series, 9. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Pp. 310. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper.)

Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea by Alberto Toscano. (London: Verso, 2010. Pp. 304. $26.95 cloth.)

Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright. (London: Verso, 2010. Pp. 288/416. $95 cloth; $26.95 paper.)

Hallowed Ground: Literature And The Encounter With God In Post-Reformtion England, C. 1550 - 1704, Michael Thomas Martin

Wayne State University Dissertations

This dissertation examines the ways in which the encounter with God is figured in post-Reformation English writing between the years 1550 and 1704. The introduction contextualizes the ways in which individuals might encounter God within cultural and historical circumstances of the period: the gradual disappearance of the tradition of spiritual direction that accompanied the suppression of Catholicism in England during the period and the growing influence of more purely "scientific" modes of inquiry, especially after Descartes. Because of these changes, the ways the encounter with God could be experienced were also changing. The introduction also shows how developments in religious …