The Oxford handbook of early modern English literature and religion / edited by Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hiscock, Andrew, 1962- editor.

Wilcox, Helen, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and literature--England--History--16th century.

Religion and literature.

Religion and literature--England--History--17th century.

England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xlv, 802 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Early modern English literature and religion

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church - and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton"-- Jacket flap

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN BRITAIN: FORMS, PRACTICES, BELIEFS

1. The Pre-Reformation Landscape / Stephen Kelly

2. The Henrician Reform / David Bagchi

3. Religious Change in the Mid-Tudor Period / John N. King

4. The Elizabethan Church of England and the Origins of Anglicanism / Torrance Kirby

5. Early Stuart Controversy: Church, State, and the Sacred / Charles W. A. Prior

6. Religion in Times of War and Republic, 1642-60 / Jacqueline Eales

7. Religion and the Government of the Later Stuarts / Grant Tapsell

pt. II LITERARY GENRES FOR THE EXPRESSION OF FAITH

8. Translation / Rachel Willie

9. Prayer and Prophecy / Erica Longfellow

10. Lyric Poetry / Simon Jackson

11. Drama / Adrian Streete

12. The Sermon / Jeanne Shami

13. Autobiographical Writings / Katharine Hodgkin

14. Satire and Polemic / Anne Lake Prescott

15. Neo-Latin Writings and Religion / Jan Bloemendal

pt. III RELIGION AND THE EARLY MODERN WRITER

16. `What England Has to Offer': Erasmus, Colet, More and their Circle / Andrew Hiscock

17. John Foxes Book of Martyrs: Tragedies of Tyrants / Gavin Schwartz-Leeper

18. Edmund Spenser / Elizabeth Heale

19. Christopher Marlowe and Religion / Lisa Hopkins

20. Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert: Piety and Poetry / Robert E. Stillman

21. John Donne / Hugh Adlington

22. Lucy Hutchinson / Robert Wilcher

23. John Milton / Catherine Gimelli Martin

pt. IV INTERPRETATIVE COMMUNITIES

24. Lay Households / Suzanne Trill

25. Female Religious Houses / Nicky Hallett

26. Sectarian Groups / Johanna Harris

27. Quakers / Catie Gill

28. Exiles at Home / Alison Searle

29. Exiles Abroad / Jaime Goodrich

30. The Jewish Diaspora / Jeffrey Shoulson

31. Islamic Communities / Bernadette Andrea

32. Settlers in New Worlds / Christopher Hodgkins

pt. V EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS LIFE: DEBATES AND ISSUES

33. The Bible / Hannibal Hamlin

34. Authority, Religion, and the State / Timothy Rosendale

35. `Finding the Genuine Light of Nature': Religion and Science / Bronwen Price

36. Body and Soul / Margaret J. M. Ezell

37. Sacred and Secular Love: `I Will Lament, and Love' / Helen Wilcox

38. The Art and Craft of Dying / Peter Carlson

39. Sin, Judgement, and Eternity / P. G. Stanwood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 679-782) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780199672806

0199672806

9780198857341

0198857349

OCLC:

966910031

Publisher Number:

99986386141