Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Paperback, New ed)

These essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and literary forms, and their reciprocal role in shaping early modern religion, from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Reflecting and rethinking the insights of new historicism and cultural studies, individual essays take up various aspects of the productive, if tense, relation between Tudor-Stuart Christianity and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature: the vernacular Bible, Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Hooker's Laws, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the poems of John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and John Milton. The collection demonstrates the centrality of religion to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and its influence on early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity and nationhood.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	1997
Editors:	Claire McEachern • Debora Shuger
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	308
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-03488-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-521-03488-4
Barcode:	9780521034883

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