Books by Eleanor Johnson

An English lit account of how contemplation worked for medieval audiences and how works were presented to readers at the time to aid them in achieving a contemplative state.

Literary scholars often avoid category of aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft. This title reveals that aesthetics formal aspects of literary language that make it senseperceptible are indeed inextricable from ethics in writing of medieval literature.