The Oxford handbook of early modern English literature and religion /
This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford handbooks.
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| Summary: | This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics and epics of literature in English. The early modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyzes the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson and John Milton. |
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| Physical Description: | xlv, 802 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [679]-782) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199672806 0199672806 9780198857341 0198857349 |