The sermons of John Donne are seen to embody the tensions and
pressure on public religious discourse 1621 - 25. This book
considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an
emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean
English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the
conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in
this period; while they are in no way "typical" of any particular
preaching agenda or style, they articulate these crises in their
most complex forms and expose fault lines in the late
JacobeanChurch. The study is framed by Donne's two most pointed
contributions to the public sphere: his sermon defending James I's
Directions to Preachers and his first sermon preached before
Charles I in 1625. These two sermons emerge from the crises of
controversy, censorship, and identity that converged in the late
Jacobean period, and mark Donne's clearest professional
interventions in the public debate about the nature and direction
of the Church of England. In them, Donne interrogates the
boundaries of the public sphere and of his conformity to the
institutions, authorities, and traditions governing public debate
in that sphere, modelling for his audience an actively
engagedconformist identity. Professor JEANNE SHAMI teaches in the
Department of English at the University of Regina.
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