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Cast Down

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Cast Down

By Mark J. Miller

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About the book

Derived from the Latin abiectus, literally meaning "thrown or cast down," "abjection" names the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible. In Western religious tradition, to be abject is to submit to bodily suffering or psychological mortification for the good of the soul. In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creat...Show more

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9780812248029

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Cast Down

Format

Hardcover

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