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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