The English sermon revised : religion, literature and history 1600-1750 / edited by Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCullough, Peter, 1965-

Ferrell, Lori Anne, 1957-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Politics and culture in early modern Britain.

Politics and culture in early modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sermons--England.

Sermons.

Religion and politics--England--History--17th century.

Religion and politics.

Religion and politics--England--History--18th century.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This exciting volume of essays reassesses and reasserts the centrality of preaching in early modern English culture. Showcasing the work of established experts and scholars in the fields of English literature, history and religious studies, it offers a retrospective review of how sermons have figured in past scholarship and teaching, and points to new ways to study sermons as literary artifact and historical evidence. The interdisciplinary group of contributors demonstrate the pertinence of sermons to a new generation of Renaissance literary studies.

Contents:

1 Revising the study of the English sermon / Lori Anne Ferrell, Peter McCullough 2

Part II The Rhetoric of Preaching

2 'Every man, that prints, adventures': the rhetoric of the Virginia Company sermons / Andrew Fitzmaurice 24

3 Elect nations and prophetic preaching: types and examples in the Paul's Cross Jeremiad / Mary Morrissey 43

4 Thomas Playfere's poetics of preaching / Bryan Crockett 59

Part III Sermons on emergent Political Occasions

5 Tuning the pulpits: the religious context of the Essex revolt / Arnold Hunt 86

6 Absolutist theology: the sermons of John Donne / Debora Shuger 115

7 Anti-Catholicism in the sermons of John Donne / Jeanne Shami 136

8 Joseph Hall, Robert Skinner and the rhetoric of moderation at the early Stuart court / Peter Lake 167

Part IV Sermons and the Modern 'Public Sphere'

9 'To lye upon a Stationers stall, like a piece of coarse flesh in a Shambles'; the sermon, print and the English Civil War / James Rigney 188

10 The sermon, the 'public sphere' and the political culture of late seventeenth-century England / Tony Claydon 208

11 Preaching in Parliament: patronage, publicity and politics in Britain, 1701-60 / James Caudle 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0719054494

OCLC:

59437711