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Forms of Faith : Literary form and religious conflict in Early Modern England.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526107169
  • 1526107163
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forms of Faith : Literary form and religious conflict in Early Modern England.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/382 23
LOC classification:
  • PR428.R46
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors ; Acknowledgments; Introduction A world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England; Religion's turn; In return; If memory serves; Return to form; Notes; Part I Religious ritual and literary form; 1 Shylock celebrates Easter; Our Passover feast; Neither Jew nor Greek; Notes; 2 Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations; Notes.
3 Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward HoNotes; 4 Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances; Notes; 5 Edmund Spenser's The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration; Notes; Part II Negotiating confessional conflict; 6 Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism ... ; Notes; 7 Tragic mediation in The White Devil; Notes; 8 'A deed without a name': evading theology in Macbeth; Notes.
9 Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflictNotes; 10 Formal experimentation and the question of Donne's ecumenicalism; Notes; 11 Foucault, confession, and Donne; Seeing the divided body of Christ; The fecundity of true religion; Notes; Afterword: Reformed indifferently ; Notes; Index.
Summary: This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Placing the focus on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate, displace or suspend confessional conflict in and through literature.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors ; Acknowledgments; Introduction A world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England; Religion's turn; In return; If memory serves; Return to form; Notes; Part I Religious ritual and literary form; 1 Shylock celebrates Easter; Our Passover feast; Neither Jew nor Greek; Notes; 2 Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations; Notes.

3 Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward HoNotes; 4 Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances; Notes; 5 Edmund Spenser's The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration; Notes; Part II Negotiating confessional conflict; 6 Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism ... ; Notes; 7 Tragic mediation in The White Devil; Notes; 8 'A deed without a name': evading theology in Macbeth; Notes.

9 Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflictNotes; 10 Formal experimentation and the question of Donne's ecumenicalism; Notes; 11 Foucault, confession, and Donne; Seeing the divided body of Christ; The fecundity of true religion; Notes; Afterword: Reformed indifferently ; Notes; Index.

This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Placing the focus on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate, displace or suspend confessional conflict in and through literature.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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