Forms of Faith: Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526143542 ISBN 13 : 9781526143549

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2020

Synopsis

This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the 'religious turn' that generated vigorous discussion of the changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it unites new historicist readings with an interest in the ideological significance of aesthetic form. It proceeds from the assumption that confessional differences did not always erupt into hostilities but that people also had to arrange themselves with divided loyalties - between the old faith and the new, between religious and secular interests, between officially sanctioned and privately held beliefs. What role might literature have played here? Can we conceive of literary representations as possible sites of de-escalation? Do different discursive, aesthetic, or social contexts inflect or deflect the demands of religious loyalties? Such questions open a new perspective on post-Reformation English culture and literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Baldo is Professor of English at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York

Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Würzburg, Germany

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526143542
• ISBN 13: 9781526143549
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Baldo Jonathan, Karremann Isabel
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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