Forms of faith (eBook, ePUB)

Literary form and religious conflict in early modern England
Redaktion: Baldo, Jonathan; Karremann, Isabel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the 'religious turn' that generated vigorous discussion of the changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it unites new historicist readings with an interest in the ideological significance of aesthetic form. It proceeds from the assumption that confessional differences did not always erupt into hostilities but that people also had to arrange themselves with divided loyalties - between the old faith and the new, between religious and secular interests, between officially sanctioned and privately held beliefs. What role might literature have played here? Can we conceive of literary representations as possible sites of de-escalation? Do different discursive, aesthetic, or social contexts inflect or deflect the demands of religious loyalties? Such questions open a new perspective on post-Reformation English culture and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526107176
• Artikelnr.: 48796377

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Baldo is Professor of English at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Würzburg, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A world of difference: religion, literary form, and the
negotiation of conflict in early modern England - Jonathan Baldo and Isabel
Karremann Part I: Religious ritual and literary form 2. Shylock celebrates
Easter - Brooke Conti 3. Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating
confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations - Phebe
Jensen 4. Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho -
Jacqueline Wylde 5. Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and
Elizabethan romances - Christina Wald 6. Edmund Spenser's The Ruines of
Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration - Isabel
Karremann Part II: Negotiating confessional conflict 7. Letters to a young
prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in
Samuel Rowley's When You See Me You Know Me (1605) - Brian Walsh 8. Tragic
mediation in The White Devil - Thomas J. Moretti 9. 'A deed without a
name:' evading theology in Macbeth - James R. Macdonald 10. Henry V and the
interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of
confessional conflict - Mary A. Blackstone 11. Formal experimentation and
the question of Donne's ecumenicalism - Alexandra M. Block 12. Foucault,
confession, and Donne - Joel M. Dodson Afterword: Reformed indifferently -
Richard Wilson Index