Confession and memory in early modern English literature : penitential remains / Paul D. Stegner (Associate Professor, California Polytechnic University, USA).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stegner, Paul D., 1978- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Confession in literature.

Repentance in literature.

Memory in literature.

Protestantism and literature--History--16th century.

Protestantism and literature.

Protestantism and literature--History--17th century.

History.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents:

Confession and memory in the age of reformations

Confession and redemptive forgetting in Spenser's Legend of holiness: memories of sin, memories of salvation

The will to forget: Ovidian heroism and the compulsion to confess in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

"Try what repentance can": Hamlet, confession, and the extraction of interiority

Will and the reconciled maid: rereading confession and remembering sin in Shake-speares sonnets

Treasonous reconciliations: Robert Southwell, religious polemic, and the criminalization of confession

Conclusion: memories of confession in seventeenth-century England.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-227) and index.

ISBN:

9781137558633

1137558636

OCLC:

931625059