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Inventing polemic : religion, print, and literary culture in early modern England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lander, Jesse M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Religion and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Religion and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Polemics in literature.
English literature > Publishing > England > History > 16th century.
English literature > Publishing > England > History > 17th century.
Book industries and trade > England > History > 16th century.
Book industries and trade > England > History > 17th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the disorder of books
  • "Foxe's" books of martyrs: printing and popularizing, the Actes and monuments
  • Martin Marprelate and the fugitive text
  • "Whole Hamlets": Q1, Q2, and the work of distinction
  • Printing Donne: poetry and polemic in the early seventeenth century
  • Areopagitica and "the true warfaring Christian"
  • Institutionalizing polemic: the rise and fall of Chelsea College
  • Epilogue: polite learning.