Religion & Cult Renaissance England - Softcover

McEachern/Shuger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521034884 ISBN 13: 9780521034883

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

These essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and literary forms, and their reciprocal role in shaping early modern religion, from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Reflecting and rethinking the insights of new historicism and cultural studies, individual essays take up various aspects of the productive, if tense, relation between Tudor-Stuart Christianity and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature: the vernacular Bible, Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Hooker's Laws, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the poems of John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and John Milton. The collection demonstrates the centrality of religion to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and its influence on early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity and nationhood.

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Book Description

Essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and literary forms from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. The collection demonstrates the centrality of religion to early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity, and nationhood.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521034884
• ISBN 13: 9780521034883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308