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Forms of faith
Literary form and religious conflict in early modern England
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Jonathan Baldo
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English
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2017
About this book
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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‘The well-crafted essays in this interesting collection share the assumption that the diversity of communicative media in early modern culture—including literary genres, festive practices, and sacramental rituals—helped cultivate a generalized interest in imagining what the thought of “religious pluralization and its irenic potential” (p. 2) might look and feel like in an era officially marked by confessional strife.’
Professor Lowell Gallagher, Studies in English Literature
Professor Lowell Gallagher, Studies in English Literature
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A world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part I Religious ritual and literary form
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Negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations Phebe Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho Jacqueline Wylde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances Christina Wald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Part II Negotiating confessional conflict
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Confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in Samuel Rowley’s When You See Me You Know Me (1605) Brian Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Thomas J. Moretti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Evading theology in Macbeth James R. Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Mary A. Blackstone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Reformed indifferently Wilson Richard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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eBook published on:
November 23, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781526107169
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781526107169
Keywords for this book
Christian faith; Christmas celebrations; confessional conflict; early modern England; Elizabethan romances; goodnight ballads; interrogative conscience; John Donne; literary form; performative negotiation; religious conflict; religious reform; religious ritual; tragic mediation; witchcraft; Eucharist debate
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
