Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. “I Must Dissemble Now”: Performing Conversion in Anthony Tyrrell and in Nathaniel Woodes’s The Conflict of Conscience 21
5. Chapter 2. “Wonderfully and Sencybly Chaunged”: Reading Conversion in William Alabaster, Augustine, and the Motives Genre 51
6. Chapter 3. “All to All”: Elizabeth Cary, William Chillingworth, and the Pauline Theater of Conversion 78
7. Chapter 4. “Unstable Bodies”: Ecumenism and the Science of Motion 106
8. Chapter 5. “Contagion of the Imagination”: Alchemy and Conversion in Ben Jonson and Kenelm Digby 135
9. Chapter 6. “I Will Performe It”: Dramatic Nostalgia and Spectacular Conversion in Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger’s The Virgin Martyr 173
10. Notes 193
11. Bibliography 221
12. Index 239
13. Acknowledgments 249