Forms of faith : literary form and religious conflict in early modern England / edited by Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baldo, Jonathan, editor.

Karremann, Isabel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Religion and literature--England--History--Congresses.

Religion and literature.

English literature--Early modern.

History.

England.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the 'religious turn' that generated vigorous discussion of the changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it unites new historicist readings with an interest in the ideological significance of aesthetic form. It proceeds from the assumption that confessional differences did not always erupt into hostilities but that people also had to arrange themselves with divided loyalties - between the old faith and the new, between religious and secular interests, between officially sanctioned and privately held beliefs. What role might literature have played here? Can we conceive of literary representations as possible sites of de-escalation? Do different discursive, aesthetic, or social contexts inflect or deflect the demands of religious loyalties? Such questions open a new perspective on post-Reformation English culture and literature.

Contents:

Introduction

A world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England / Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann

Part I: Religious ritual and literary form

Shylock celebrates Easter / Brooke Conti

Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations / Phebe Jensen

Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward ho / Jacqueline Wylde

Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances / Christina Wald

Edmund Spenser's The ruines of time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration / Isabel Karremann

Part II: Negotiating confessional conflict

Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in Samuel Rowley's When you see me you know me (1605) / Brian Walsh

Tragic mediation in The white devil / Thomas J. Moretti

'A deed without a name': evading theology in Macbeth / James R. Macdonald

Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict / Mary A. Blackstone

Formal experimentation and the question of Donne's ecumenicalism / Alexandra M. Block

Foucault, confession, and Donne / Joel M. Dodson

Afterword

Reformed indifferently / Richard Wilson.

Notes:

"This collection began as a ... conference hosted by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, entitled 'Forgetting faith? Negotiating confessional conflict in early modern Europe."--Page xii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719096815

0719096812

OCLC:

988554282