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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gordon, Colby. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Glorious Bodies [Texte imprimé] : trans theology and Renaissance literature / Colby Gordon
Publication : Chicago (Ill.) ; London : The University of Chicago Press, copyright 2024
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (262 pages) ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 225-254. Notes bibliogr. Index"In this striking contribution to trans history, Colby Gordon challenges the prevailing assumption that trans life is a byproduct of recent medical innovation by locating a cultural imaginary of transition in the religious writing of the English Renaissance. Marking a major intervention in early modern gender studies, Glorious Bodies insists that transition happened, both socially and surgically, hundreds of years before the nineteenth-century advent of sexology. Pairing literary texts by Shakespeare, Webster, Donne, and Milton with a broad range of primary sources, Gordon examines the religious tropes available to early modern subjects for imagining how gender could change. From George Herbert's invaginated Jesus and Milton's gestational Adam to the ungendered “glorious body” of the resurrection, early modern theology offers a rich conceptual reservoir of trans imagery. In uncovering early modern trans theology, Glorious Bodies mounts a critique of the broad consensus that secularism is a necessary precondition for trans life, while also combating contemporary transphobia and the right-wing Christian culture war seeking to criminalize transition. Developing a rehabilitative account of theology's value for positing trans lifeworlds, this book leverages premodern religion to imagine a postsecular transness in the present."
Sujet(s) : Littérature religieuse anglaise -- Renaissance Littérature anglaise -- Renaissance Transsexualisme -- Religion -- Histoire -- Angleterre (GB)
Indice(s) Dewey : 200.81 (23e éd.) = Religion - Étude en relation avec le genre ou le sexe ; 820.938 2 (23e éd.) = Littérature de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - Thèmes et concepts religieux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226835006 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb476914956
Notice n° : FRBNF47691495