Religion, literature, and politics in post-Reformation England, 1540-1688

This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the rel...

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Subtitles:Religion, Literature, & Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688
Contributors: Hamilton, Donna B. (Editor) ; Strier, Richard (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996
In:Year: 1996
Reviews:The play of paradox. Stage and sermon in Renaissance England. By Bryan Crockett. Pp. xi+213 incl. frontispiece. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. £31.50. 0 8122 3316 6. Religion, literature and politics in post-Reformation England, 1540–1688. Edited by Donna B. Hamilton and Richard Strier. Pp. xi+280. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. £35 (54.95). 0 521 47456 6 (1998) (Sharpe, Kevin)
[Rezension von: Hamilton, Donna B., Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688] (1997) (Nelson, Byron)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B English language / Literature / Religion (Motif) / History 1540-1688
Further subjects:B Great Britain ; History ; Tudors, 1485-1603
B Collection of essays
B England ; Church history ; 17th century
B English literature ; Early modern, 1500-1700
B England ; Church history ; 16th century
B Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714
B English literature Early modern, 1500-1700
B England Church history 16th century
B England Church history 17th century
B Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603
B Great Britain ; History ; Stuarts, 1603-1714
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Print version: 9780521474566
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Summary:This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional treatises, political treatises and histories. It breaks down normal distinctions between Tudor and Stuart, pre- and post-Restoration periods to reveal a coherent (though not all serene and untroubled) post-Reformation culture struggling with major issues of belief, practice and authority
Sir John Oldcastle as symbol of Reformation historiography / Annabel Patterson -- The "sacred hunger of ambitious minds" : Spenser's savage religion / Andrew Hadfield -- Subversive fathers and suffering subjects : Shakespeare and Christianity / Debora K. Shuger -- Kneeling and the body politic / Lori Anne Ferrell -- Donne and the politics of devotion / Richard Strier -- Catholic, Anglican or puritan? Edward Sackville, fourth Earl of Dorset, and the ambiguities of religion in early Stuart England / David L. Smith -- Crucifixion or apocalypse? Refiguring the Eikon Basilike / Laura Blair McKnight -- Marvell, sacrilege, and Protestant historigraphy : contextualizing "Upon Appleton House" / Gary D. Hamilton -- Entering The temple : women, reading, and devotion in seventeenth-century England / Helen Wilcox -- Contextualizing Dryden's Absalom : William Lawrence, the laws of marriage, and the case for King Monmouth / Mark Goldie -- Reformation in the Restoration Crisis, 1679-1682 / Gary S. De Krey -- Shadwell's dramatic trimming / Steven Pincus
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ISBN:0511518927
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511518928