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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Introduction; Eucharist and the poetic imagination; History of a controversy: rhetorical reformations; Eucharistic figuration: Luther, Zwingli, Calvin; Types of ambiguity: The Book of Common Prayer, 1549-1559; Writing after the Reformation: 1559-1674; Eucharist troped; Chapter 1 Southwell and paradox; Paradox, anonymity and the Jesuit aesthetic; Southwell's literary apostolate; Body as text: imitation and martyrdom; Text as body: writing, relic, sacrament; Poetry and the failure of sacramental substitution
Chapter 2 Donne and punningThe sacramental pun; Love and the eucharist; Implicit sacramentalism: rhetoric and divinity; Transubstantiating transubstantiation; Chapter 3 Herbert and metanoia; The metanoietic impulse: correction and deception; The divided voice; The divine voice; Metanoia and the eucharist; Submissive equivocation: Herbert's mysterious eucharist; Chapter 4 Crashaw and metonymy; Criticising Crashaw: a matter of taste; Outrageous appetites: the erotics of the edible Christ; Crashaw's self-consuming art; Metonymy and Christianity; Communion in one kind: eucharistic accommodation
Chapter 5 Vaughan and synecdocheThe synecdoche of the flashing flint; Scriptural poetics and the Book of Nature; Anglican recusancy and the Book of Common Prayer; 'Vitall gold': communions of light; Chapter 6 Milton and metaphor; Metaphor and Christianity; The eucharist in paradise; Transubstantiating transubstantiation II; Covenant and sacrament; Eve's misreadings: of sacramental symbols and the fruit; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Primary; Secondary; Index;
