Literature and the Scottish Reformation / edited by Crawford Gribben and David George Mullan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gribben, Crawford.

Mullan, David George.

Series:

St. Andrews studies in Reformation history.

St. Andrews studies in Reformation history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--Scotland.

Scottish literature--To 1700--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literature and the Scottish Reformation offers a full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between literature and Reformation in early modern Scotland. Previous scholarship in this area has tended to dismiss the literary value of the writing of the period - largely as a reaction to its regular theological interests. Instead the essays in this volume reinforce recent work that challenges the received scholarly consensus by taking these interests seriously, and argues for the importance of this religiously orientated writing through the adoption of a series of interdisciplinary a

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I Contexts; PART II Texts; PART III Reception; A few concluding observations; Index

Notes:

"First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-92197-5

1-351-92198-3

1-315-25041-1

1-282-09178-6

9786612091780

0-7546-9332-5

OCLC:

651746854