Love's quarrels : reading charity in early modern England / Evan A. Gurney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurney, Evan A., author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Massachusetts studies in early modern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Charity in literature.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Reading charity in early modern England

Place of Publication:

Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Early modern English writers often complained that 'charity had grown cold,' lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated heated debates, animated by social, political, and religious changes that prompted urgent questions about the virtue's powers and functions. Charity was as much a problem as it was a solution, a sure sign of trouble even when invoked on behalf of peace and community. Love's Quarrels charts charity's complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in biblical translations of the early sixteenth century, in Elizabethan polemic and satire, and in the political and religious controversies arriving at the outset of civil war. As key works from Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton reveal, "reading charity" was fraught with difficulty as early modern England reconsidered its deepest held convictions in the face of mounting social disruption and spiritual pressure"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Charitable signs and tokens

Charitable translation: Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the Vagrant text

Charitable admonition: moral reform in Elizabethan polemic and satire

Charitable allegory: figures of love in Spenser's Faerie Queene

Charitable use: Ben Jonson, city comedy, and commercial charity

Charitable singularity: negotiations of liberty in Civil War England

Conclusion: "Not a single charity".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-285) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Gurney, Evan A., author. Love's quarrels

ISBN:

9781625343802

1625343809

9781625343819

1625343817

OCLC:

1032353460