This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating
religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in
the 'religious turn' that generated vigorous discussion of the
changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it unites
new historicist readings with an interest in the ideological
significance of aesthetic form. It proceeds from the assumption
that confessional differences did not always erupt into hostilities
but that people also had to arrange themselves with divided
loyalties - between the old faith and the new, between religious
and secular interests, between officially sanctioned and privately
held beliefs. What role might literature have played here? Can we
conceive of literary representations as possible sites of
de-escalation? Do different discursive, aesthetic, or social
contexts inflect or deflect the demands of religious loyalties?
Such questions open a new perspective on post-Reformation English
culture and literature. -- .
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