Antoinina Bevan Zlatar

Reformation Fictions

Polemical Protestant Dialogues in Elizabethan England

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Produktbeschreibung

Reformation Fictions rehabilitates a body of little-known Elizabethan texts. It takes some twenty polemical Protestant dialogues written predominantly by puritan clerics, and for the first time gives them a literary, historicist and, to a lesser extent, theological reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780199604692
• ISBN-10: 019960469X
• Artikelnr.: 33252776

Autorenporträt

Antoinina Bevan Zlatar read English at Lincoln College, Oxford, before completing a doctorate in English literature and Reformation history at the University of Geneva.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction
II. Dialogues profitable, delightsome and bold
1: De utilitate colloquiorum
2: The authors, their creations, and the nature of fiction
III. Tudor Precursors
1: Henrician priests and insubordinate servants
2: The Edwardian Whore of Babylon
3: Marian wolves
IV. 'Englishing' Pierre Viret: the Case of John Véron
1: Pierre Viret's Disputations chrestiennes
2: 'Englishing' Pierre Viret or The Huntynge of Purgatorye to Death
3: Véron's rhetoric of refutation
V. Fear of Popery
1: French butchers and Spanish galleons
2: The Campion affair: John Nicholls and George Gifford
3: Francis Savage and recusant wives
VI. Puritans against the Bishops
1: Archbishop Parker's comely, one-eyed chaplain
2: Bitter laughter: John Udall, Job Throckmorton and Martin Marprelate
VII. Fear of Atheism
1: George Gifford's country parishioner
2: I. B.'s country parson
VIII. Applying oneself to the capacity of the unlearned
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
Bibliography
Index