Love Against Substitution: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and the Meaning of Marriage

by Eric B. Song

Are we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions through depictions of marriage. The writings studied in this book elevate a love between two individuals who deem each other to be unique to the point of being irreplaceable, and this vocabulary allows writers to put affective pressure on the meaning of marriage as Pauline theology defines it. Stubbornly individual, love threatens to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503631400
• ISBN13: 9781503631403
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 5.9"