The Pathology of the English Renaissance: Sacred Remains and Holy Ghosts

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-11195-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 86, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

This examination of the fate of lost ideas after the Protestant reformation explores what might be called the pathology of the Renaissance.
The first part of the book treats Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost, concentrating on vacant cultural spaces and abandoned icons to trace the gap between sacred and secular life, between poetry and belief. The second part focuses on Shakespeare's Hamlet and Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam to investigate the eschatological implications of this gap, the ways that history is disentangled from memory and nostalgia severed from experience.
The book challenges readings of Renaissance culture as an increasingly secular one, proposing that sacred symbols and practices still powerfully organized the English moral imagination, oriented behaviors and arranged perceptions, and specified the limits of the known world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazzola, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Mazzola, Ph.D. (1991) in English, New York University, is Wegman Assistant Professor of English at the City College of New York. She has published many essays on Reformation poetics, and was awarded the Spenser Society's 1996 Isabel MacCaffrey Medal.