1st Edition
Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion Bodies at Prayer
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Standard Editions
Introduction: "Pathetical Prayer"
Chapter 1 Dressing the Devotional Body
"A linnen Sock over it": Material Bodies in Church
Inventorying Dress
‘The ghost of a linen decency’
Shifting Bodies in Milton’s Mask
Chapter 2 "Stale and empty words": Consuming Prayers in Eikonoklastes
Subjects and Audiences in Liturgical Prayer
Prayer in the King’s Closet
"Wholesome Words" and Manna
Feeling and Eating Prayers
Chapter 3 Hymns, Sighs, and the Materiality of Prayer in Paradise Lost
Prayer in Hymns
Singing Prayers
Prayer in Sighs
Sighs, Groans, and Agency
Chapter 4 "As one who pray’d": The Iconoclastic Prayer of Samson Agonistes
Samson’s Posture
Samson’s Rhetoric
Samson’s Violent Prayer
Epilogue
Biography
Naya Tsentourou is currently Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, Penryn. She has research interests in Milton and religious lyric, as well as Shakespeare and the history of emotions. She has co-edited the collection Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England (forthcoming with Routledge) with Lucia Nigri.
