Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England FICTION / Immigration For more than forty years

For more than forty years

thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty

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Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England FICTION / Immigration For more than forty yearsRebecca Lemon illuminates a previously buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that