Love's Quarrels Reading Charity in Early Modern England / Evan A. Gurney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurney, Evan A., author.

Series:

Massachusetts studies in early modern culture.

Massachusetts studies in early modern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charity in literature.

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

English literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 296 pages) : illustrations.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Amherst : 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:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781613766286

1613766289

OCLC:

1056201153