<strong>Closet Devotions</strong> is a bold and original work. Rambuss asks us to takeseriously the relation between sexual and religious affect in the Renaissa... » 

Closet Devotions is a bold and original work. Rambuss asks us to takeseriously the relation between sexual and religious affect in the Renaissancedevotional lyric without reducing one to the other. In a series of virtuosoreadings he brings together two previously distant fields of scholarlyinquiry enriching our sense of the affective intensity of religious lyric atthe same time that he demonstrates the astonishing scope of human sexuality.John David Guillory Harvard University «