Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion

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.

• AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations and Standard EditionsIntroduction: "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 EikonoklastesSubjects 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 LostPrayer in HymnsSinging Prayers Prayer in Sighs Sighs, Groans, and AgencyChapter 4 "As one who pray’d": The Iconoclastic Prayer of Samson AgonistesSamson’s PostureSamson’s RhetoricSamson’s Violent PrayerEpilogue