The fruit of intensive collaboration among leading international
specialists on the literature, religion and culture of early modern
England, this volume examines the relationship between writing and
religion in England from 1558, the year of the Elizabethan
Settlement, up until the Act of Toleration of 1689. Throughout
these studies, religious writing is broadly taken as being
'communicational' in the etymological sense: that is, as a medium
which played a significant role in the creation or consolidation of
communities. Some texts shaped or reinforced one particular kind of
religious identity, whereas others fostered communities which cut
across the religious borderlines which prevailed in other areas of
social interaction. For a number of the scholars writing here, such
communal differences correlate with different ways of drawing on
the resources of cultural memory. The denominational spectrum
covered ranges from several varieties of Dissent, through via media
Anglicanism, to Laudianism and Roman Catholicism, and there are
also glances towards heresy and the mid-seventeenth century's new
atheism. With respect to the range of different genres examined,
the volume spans the gamut from poetry, fictional prose, drama,
court masque, sermons, devotional works, theological treatises,
confessions of faith, church constitutions, tracts, and letters, to
history-writing and translation. Arranged in roughly chronological
order, Writing and Religion in England, 1558-1689 presents chapters
which explore religious writing within the wider contexts of
culture, ideas, attitudes, and law, as well as studies which
concentrate more on the texts and readerships of particular
writers. Several contributors embrace an inter-arts orientation,
relating writing to liturgical ceremony, painting, music and
architecture, while others opt for a stronger sociological slant,
explicitly emphasizing the role of women writers and of writers
from different sub-cultural backgrounds.
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