Baldo / Unknown / Karremann Forms of faith

Literary form and religious conflict in early modern England
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0716-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Baldo, Jonathan

Karremann, Isabel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: a world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England – Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann
Part I: Religious ritual and literary form
2 Shylock celebrates Easter – Brooke Conti
3 Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations – Phebe Jensen
4 Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho – Jacqueline Wylde
5 Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances – Christina Wald
6. Edmund Spenser’s The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration – Isabel Karremann
Part II: Negotiating confessional conflict
7 Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in Samuel Rowley’s When You See Me You Know Me (1605) – Brian Walsh
8 Tragic mediation in The White Devil – Thomas J. Moretti
9 ‘A deed without a name:’ evading theology in Macbeth – James R. Macdonald
10 Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict – Mary A. Blackstone
11 Formal experimentation and the question of Donne’s ecumenicalism – Alexandra M. Block
12 Foucault, confession, and Donne – Joel M. Dodson
13 Afterword: reformed indifferently – Richard Wilson
Index