Victoria Brownlee

Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in early modern England and it explores the impact of how the Bible was read across a variety of writers and genres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780198812487
• ISBN-10: 0198812485
• Artikelnr.: 49663933

Autorenporträt

Victoria Brownlee is a Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Prior to this, she held an Irish Research Council early career fellowship at University College Dublin. Dr Brownlee is co-editor of Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture, 1550-1700 (Manchester University Press, 2015), and has published on women's writing and apocalypse. Her research interests focus on the early modern Bible and religious and devotional literature.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'The engrafted word': Reading and Receiving the Scriptures in
Early Modern England
* 2: 'Our King Salomon': Biblical Typology and the Kingship of Solomon
in Tudor and Stuart England
* 3: A Tale of Two Jobs: Reading Suffering, Providence, and Restoration
in King Leir and King Lear
* 4: 'By moste sweete and comfortable allegories': Locating Spiritual
Significance in the Song of Songs
* 5: Typologies of Marian Maternity: Literal and Spiritual Birth in
Seventeenth-Century Women's Writing
* 6: Reading Revelations: Figuring the End in Post-Reformation Literary
Culture