Reformation fictions : polemical Protestant dialogues in Elizabethan England / Antoinina Bevan Zlatar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zlatar, Antoinina Bevan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

English literature--Protestant authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reformation fictions" rehabilitates some twenty polemical dialogues published in Elizabethan England, for the first time giving them a literary, historicist and, to a lesser extent, theological reading. By juxtaposing these Elizabethan publications with key Lutheran and Calvinist dialogues, theological tracts, catechisms, sermons, and dramatic interludes, Antoinina Bevan Zlatar explores how individual dialogists exploit the fictionality of their chosen genre.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Conventions; I. Introduction; II. Dialogues Profitable, Delightsome, and Bold; De utilitate colloquiorum; The authors, their creations, and the nature of fiction; III. Tudor Precursors; Henrician priests and insubordinate servants; The Edwardian whore of Babylon; The trial of Mistress Missa; Marian wolves; Conclusion; IV. 'Englishing' Pierre Viret: The Case of John Véron; Pierre Viret's Disputations chrestiennes; 'Englishing' Pierre Viret or The Huntynge of Purgatorye to death; Véron's rhetoric of refutation; Conclusion

V. Fear of PoperyFrench butchers and Spanish galleons; The Campion affair: John Nicholls and George Gifford; Francis Savage and recusant wives; Conclusion; VI. Puritans against the Bishops; Archbishop Parker's comely, one-eyed chaplain; A pleasavnt dialogve Betweene a Souldior of Barwicke, and an English Chaplaine; Bitter laughter: John Udall, Job Throckmorton, and Martin Marprelate; Conclusion; VII. Fear of Atheism; George Gifford's country parishioner; I. B.'s country parson; Conclusion; VIII. Applying Oneself to the Capacity of the Unlearned; A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms; A; C; D; E; I

MP; S; T; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-283-26554-0

9786613265548

0-19-161922-1

OCLC:

754326561