|
Religion and Culture in Renaissance England
Paperback / softback
Main Details
| Title |
Religion and Culture in Renaissance England
|
| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Claire McEachern
|
|
Edited by Debora Shuger
|
| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:308 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152 |
|
| Category/Genre | Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800 |
|---|
| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521034883
|
| Classifications | Dewey:274.206 |
|---|
| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
|---|
| Illustrations |
6 Halftones, unspecified
|
|
Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
|
| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
|
| Publication Date |
14 December 2006 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
|
Description
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.
Reviews'... a ground-breaking collection.' Cahiers Elisabethains
|
