Susannah Brietz Monta

Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive comparison of the representations of early modern Protestant and Catholic martyrs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120234
• ISBN-10: 0521120233
• Artikelnr.: 26816320

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Non poena sed causa: Martyrdom and the Hermeneutics of Controversy: 1. Controverting consciences
2. Too many brides: the interpretive community and ecclesiological controversy
3. Material witnesses
Part II. Conflicting Testimonies in the English Literary Imagination
4. En route to the New Jerusalem: martyrdom and religious allegory
5. When the truth hurts: suffering and religious confidence in Robert Southwell and John Donne
6. The polemics of conscience in the history play
7. Martyrdom, nostalgia, and political engagement
Conclusion: admiration and fear.