Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by Gordon, Colby
Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by Gordon, Colby

Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature

A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds. In this striking contribution...
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Author: Colby Gordon
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Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by Gordon, Colby

Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature

$103.83
Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by Gordon, Colby

Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature

$103.83
Author: Colby Gordon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds.

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.

Author: Colby Gordon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/04/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
ISBN: 9780226835006


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/15/2024

About the Author
Colby Gordon is associate professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College.
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