Print version: Lerner, Ross. Unknowing fanaticism : Reformation literatures of self-annihilation. New York : Fordham University Press, c2019 241 pages ISBN 9780823283873
Includes bibliographical references and index
Receiving divine action: fanaticism and form in the Reformation -- Allegorical fanaticism: Spenser’s organs -- Lyric fanaticism: Donne’s annihilation -- Readerly fanaticism: Hobbes’s outworks -- Tragic fanaticism: Samson’s passion.