In Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic,
Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions, editors Arthur F. Marotti
and Chanita Goodblatt present thirteen essays that examine the
complex religious culture of early modern England. Emphasising
particularly the marginalised discourses of Catholicism and Judaism
in mainstream English Protestant culture, the authors highlight the
instability of an official religious order that was troubled not
only by religious heterodoxy but also by feminist and secular
challenges. North American and Israeli scholars present essays on a
wide range of subjects all assumed to be ""marginal"" but which in
a real sense were central to the religious and cultural life of the
Protestant English nation. Using critical methods ranging from
historical analysis, deconstruction, feminist inquiry, and
intertextual interpretation to pedagogical experimentation,
contributors offer analyses in five sections: Minority Catholic
Culture, Figuring the Jew, Hebraism and the Bible, Women and
Religion, and Religion and Secularization. Essays reveal new
aspects of familiar texts such as Shakespeare's King Lear and The
Merchant of Venice, the psalm translations by Sir Philip Sidney and
the Countess of Pembroke, Christopher Marlowe's dramas, George
Herbert's poetry, Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, and
John Milton's Samson Agonistes. They also call attention to works
such as the mid-sixteenth-century play The Historie of Jacob and
Esau, William Blundell's Catholic antiquarian writing, the series
of paintings portraying the religious institute of Mary Ward, and
funeral sermons for religiously active women. Contributors show
that we cannot understand a culture without attending to its
repressed, marginalised, and unacknowledged elements. Scholars of
religious, literary, and cultural history will enjoy this
illuminating collection. Contributors Include: Achsah Guibbory,
Anne Lake Prescott, Arthur F. Marotti, Avraham Oz, Chanita
Goodblatt, Elliott M. Simon, Jeanne Shami, Lowell Gallagher, Noam
Flinker, Noam Reisner, Phebe Jensen, Sanford Budick, Yaakov
Mascetti.
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