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...
| 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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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511518927 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511518928 |