{"product_id":"the-incarnate-text-imagining-the-book-in-reformation-england-hardcover","title":"The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Kearney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the course of the Reformation, artistic representation famously came under attack. Statues were destroyed, music and theater were forbidden, and poetry was denounced, all in the name of eradicating superstition and idolatry. The iconoclastic impulse that sparked these attacks, however, proved remarkably productive, generating a profusion of theological, polemical, and literary writing from Catholics and Protestants alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReformers like Luther had promised a return to the book, attacking Catholicism as a religion of images and icons. Becoming a religion of the book in the way that Reformers proposed, however, proved impossible: language is inescapably material; books are necessarily things, objects that are seen and touched. The antitheses at the heart of this opposition--word versus thing, text versus image--have had far-reaching effects on the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Kearney engages with recent work in the history of the book and the history of religion to investigate the crisis of the book occasioned by the Reformation's simultaneous faith in text and distrust of material forms. Drawing in a wide range of topics--from humanism and hermeneutics to secularization and enlightenment, from iconoclasm and anti-Semitism to barbarism and fetishism--and looking to a range of texts--including Erasmus's \u003ci\u003eJerome\u003c\/i\u003e, Spenser's \u003ci\u003eFaerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e, and Shakespeare's Tempest--\u003ci\u003eThe Incarnate Text\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how this crisis of the book helped to change the way the modern world apprehends both texts and things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Kearney is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757735215392,"sku":"9780812241587","price":129.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/611c8dd71334b0fb04ff0ffb302bb460.webp?v=1780110437","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-incarnate-text-imagining-the-book-in-reformation-england-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}