Literary form and religious conflict in Early Modern England Baldo, Jonathan. creator Karremann, Isabel. text Electronic books. enk Manchester Manchester University Press 2017 monographic eng 1 online resource (266 pages) 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. 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. Includes bibliographical references and index. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Congresses Religion and literature England History Congresses LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh PR428.R46 820.9/382 Baldo, Jonathan. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2017 9781526107169 1526107163 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1528946 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1528946 EBLCP 170603 20200709060545.0 ocn988872158 eng