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This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections.
The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity.
The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.
Contents
Part One. The Religious History of Early Modern Britain: Forms, Practices, Beliefs
1: Stephen Kelly: The Pre-Reformation Landscape
2: David Bagchi: The Henrician Reform
3: John N. King: Religious Change in the Mid-Tudor Period
4: Torrance Kirby: The Elizabethan Church of England and the origins of Anglicanism
5: Charles W. A. Prior: Early Stuart Controversy: Church, State and the Sacred
6: Jacqueline Eales: Religion in times of War and Republic, 1642-1660
7: Grant Tapsell: Religion and the Government of the Later Stuarts
Part Two. Literary Genres for the Expression of Faith
8: Rachel Willie: Translation
9: Erica Longfellow: Prayer and Prophecy
10: Elizabeth Clarke and Simon Jackson: Lyric Poetry
11: Adrian Streete: Drama
12: Jeanne Shami: Sermons
13: Kate Hodgkin: Autobiographical Writings
14: Anne Lake Prescott: Satire and Polemic
15: Jan Bloemendal: Neo-Latin Writings and Religion
Part Three. Religion and the Early Modern Writer
16: Andrew Hiscock: 'What England has to offer': Erasmus, Colet, More and their Circle
17: Mike Pincombe and Gavin Schwarz-Leeper: John Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Tragedies of Tyrants
18: Elizabeth Heale: Edmund Spenser
19: Lisa Hopkins: Christopher Marlowe and Religion
20: Nandra Perry and Robert E. Stillman: Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert: Piety and Poetry
21: Hugh Adlington: John Donne
22: Robert Wilche: Lucy Hutchinson
23: Catherine Gimelli Martin: John Milton
Part Four. Interpretative Communities
24: Suzanne Trill: Lay Households
25: Nicky Hallett: Female Religious Houses
26: Johanna Harris: Sectarian Groups
27: Catie Gill: Quakers
28: Alison Searle: Exiles at Home
29: Jaime Goodrich: Exiles Abroad
30: Jeffrey Shoulson: The Jewish Diaspora
31: Bernadette Andrea: Islamic Communities
32: Christopher Hodgkins: Settlers in New Worlds
Part Five. Early Modern Religious Life: Debates and Issues
33: Hannibal Hamlin: The Bible
34: Timothy Rosendale: Authority, Religion and the State
35: Bronwen Price: 'Finding the genuine light of nature': Religion and Science
36: Margaret J. M. Ezell: Body and Soul
37: Helen Wilcox: Sacred and Secular Love: 'I will lament, and love'
38: Peter Carlson: The Art and Craft of Dying
39: P.G. Stanwood: Sin, Judgment and Eternity
Appendix
Jesse David Sharpe: Resources: A Beginner's Guide
List of Abbreviations
