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.
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