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  title info:
    title: Love's quarrels
    sub title: reading charity in early modern England
  name:
    name part: Gurney, Evan A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Early modern English writers often complained that 'charity had grown cold,' lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated heated debates, animated by social, political and religious changes that prompted urgent questions about the virtue's powers and functions. Charity was as much a problem as it was a solution, a sure sign of trouble even when invoked on behalf of peace and community. Love's Quarrels charts charity's complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in biblical translations of the early sixteenth century, in Elizabethan polemic and satire, and in the political and religious controversies arriving at the outset of civil war. As key works from Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson and John Milton reveal, "reading charity" was fraught with difficulty as early modern England reconsidered its deepest held convictions in the face of mounting social disruption and spiritual pressure.
  table of contents: Introduction: Charitable signs and tokens -- Charitable translation: Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the Vagrant text -- Charitable admonition: moral reform in Elizabethan polemic and satire -- Charitable allegory: figures of love in Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Charitable use: Ben Jonson, city comedy, and commercial charity -- Charitable singularity: negotiations of liberty in Civil War England -- Conclusion: "Not a single charity."
  note: Evan A. Gurney.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Charity in literature
  classification: PR418.C33 G87 2018
  classification: 820.9/355
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Massachusetts studies in early modern culture
  identifier: 9781625343819
  identifier: 1625343817
  identifier: 9781625343802
  identifier: 1625343809
  identifier: 2018019146
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180427
    record change date: 20190422103810.0
    record identifier: in00004023565