Forms of faith: Literary form and religious conflict in early modern England

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.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781526107176

Related ISBNs:

9781526107169, 9780719096815, 9781526143549

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Date of Addition:

10/31/24

Copyrighted By:

Manchester University Press

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts

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Edited by:

Jonathan Baldo

Edited by:

Isabel Karremann