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Media type:
Book
Title:
The Oxford handbook of early modern english literature and religion
Contains:
Pre-Reformation Landscape
/ Stephen Kelly
Henrician Reform
/ David Bagchi
Religious Change in the Mid-Tudor Period
/ John N. King
Elizabethan Church of England and the Origins of Anglicanism
/ Torrance Kirby
Early Stuart Controversy: Church, State, and the Sacred
/ Charles W.A. Prior
Religion in Times of War and Republic, 1642-60
/ Jacqueline Eales
Religion and the Government of the Later Stuarts
/ Grant Tapsell
Translation
/ Rachel Willie
Prayer and Prophecy
/ Erica Longfellow
Lyric Poetry
/ Elizabeth Clarke and Simon Jackson
Drama
/ Adrian Streete
Sermon
/ Jeanne Shami
Autobiographical Writings
/ Katharine Hodgkin
Satire and Polemic
/ Anne Lake Prescott
Neo-Latin Writings and Religion
/ Jan Bloemendal
"What England Has to Offer": Erasmus, Colet, More and Their Circle
/ Andrew Hiscock
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Tragedies of Tyrants
/ Mike Pincombe and Gavin Schwartz-Leeper
Edmund Spenser
/ Elizabeth Heale
Christopher Marlowe and Religion
/ Lisa Hopkins
Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert: Piety and Poetry
/ Nandra Perry and Robert E. Stillman
John Donne
/ Hugh Adlington
Lucy Hutchinson
/ Robert Wilcher
John Milton
/ Catherine Gimelli Martin
Lay Households
/ Suzanne Trill
Female Religious Houses
/ Nicky Hallett
Sectarian Groups
/ Johanna Harris
Quakers
/ Catie Gill
Exiles at Home
/ Alison Searle
Exiles Abroad
/ Jaime Goodrich
Jewish Diaspora
/ Jeffrey Shoulson
Islamic Communities
/ Bernadette Andrea
Settlers in New Worlds
/ Christopher Hodgkins
Bible
/ Hannibal Hamlin
Authority, Religion, and the State
/ Timothy Rosendale
"Finding the Genuine Light of Nature": Religion and Science
/ Bronwen Price
Body and Soul
/ Margaret J.M. Ezell
Sacred and Secular Love: 'I Will Lament, and Love'
/ Hellen Wilcox
Art and Craft of Dying
/ Peter Carlson
Sin, Judgement, and Eternity
/ P.G. Stanwood.
Description:
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 analyses 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. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.