Description: Examines what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about.
Brief description: Julianne Sandberg is an Assistant Professor of English at Samford University, USA.
Review Quotes:
"The book weaves together literary studies and religious studies with a fresh and materialist approach, and yields useful and important new perspectives on the assembled writers and texts." --Kimberly Johnson, Brigham Young University, USA
"The overall tone achieves a level of accessibility that broadens the book's reach beyond a strictly specialist audience, meaning that this text can benefit literary scholars, historians, and early modernists alike. Ultimately, the reader can expect a thorough contextual exposition of the religious climate in the early modern period and a rich analysis of the diverse literary responses to fluctuating understandings of corporeality influenced by the Reformed Eucharist." --Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association