Centered on the word : literature, scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart middle way / edited by Daniel W. Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doerksen, Daniel W., 1931-

Hodgkins, Christopher, 1958-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.

Christianity and literature.

Theology, Doctrinal.

History.

England.

Christianity and literature--England--History--17th century.

Theology, Doctrinal--England--History--16th century.

Theology, Doctrinal--England--History--17th century.

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Physical Description:

367 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2004]

Contents:

Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion: a psalter of love / Carol V. Kaske

Guiding the heavenly causes: faithfulness, fate, and prophecy in The fairie queene / Lorena Henry

Lanyer and Southwell: a Protestant woman's re-vision of St. Peter / Susanne Woods

Luther, Cranmer, Service, and Shakespeare / David Evett

Publishing the sole-talk of the soule: genre in early Stuart piety / Kate Narveson

'The man which have affliction seene': Donne, Jeremiah, and the fashioning of lamentation / Raymond-Jean Frontain

Discerning God's voice, God's hand: scripturalist moderation in Donne's Devotions / Daniel W. Doerksen

Squint-eyed, left-handed, half-deaf: Imperfect senses and John Donne's interpretive middle way / Jeanne Shami

Sacramentalizing the Word: Donne's 1626 Christmas sermon / Robert Whalen

Locating the Word: the textual church and George Herbert's Temple / Paul Dyck

'A prophetique dreame of the churche': William Baspoole's laudian reception of the medieval Pilgrimage of the lyfe of the manhode / Kathryn Walls

Milton and the bishops: ecclesiastical controversy and the early poems / John N. King

Plays out of season: Puritanism, antitheatricalism, and the closing of the theaters / Christopher Hodgkins

Creative adoption in Eliza's babes (1652): Puritan refigurations of Sibbes, Herrick, and Herbert / L. E. Semler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0874138434

OCLC:

52347732