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Assessing early modern literature and England’s Long Reformation,
this book challenges the notion that the English Reformation ended
in the sixteenth century, or even by the seventeenth century.
Contributions by literary scholars and historians of religion put
these two disciplines in critical conversation with each other, in
order to examine a complex, messy, and long-drawn-out process of
reformation that continued well beyond the significant political
and religious upheavals of the sixteenth century. The aim of this
conversation is to generate new perspectives on the constant
remaking of the Reformation—or Reformations, as some scholars
prefer to characterize the multiple religious upheavals and
changes, both Catholic and Protestant—of the early modern period.
This interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to debates
about the nature and length of England’s Long Reformation. Early
Modern Literature and England’s Long Reformation is essential
reading for scholars and students considering the interconnections
between literature and religion in the early modern period. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal Reformation.
Assessing early modern literature and England's Long Reformation,
this book challenges the notion that the English Reformation ended
in the sixteenth century, or even by the seventeenth century.
Contributions by literary scholars and historians of religion put
these two disciplines in critical conversation with each other, in
order to examine a complex, messy, and long-drawn-out process of
reformation that continued well beyond the significant political
and religious upheavals of the sixteenth century. The aim of this
conversation is to generate new perspectives on the constant
remaking of the Reformation-or Reformations, as some scholars
prefer to characterize the multiple religious upheavals and
changes, both Catholic and Protestant-of the early modern period.
This interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to debates
about the nature and length of England's Long Reformation. Early
Modern Literature and England's Long Reformation is essential
reading for scholars and students considering the interconnections
between literature and religion in the early modern period. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal Reformation.
Written by an international team of literary scholars and
historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of
early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's
England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively
reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the
creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions
of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including
Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such
as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure
for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The
collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies,
early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern
history.
This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of
leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to
examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of
'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions
of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies
in England from the English Reformation to the end of the
seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significant
literary issues involved in both defending and demonising heretical
beliefs, including the contested hermeneutic strategies applied to
the interpretation of the Bible, and they examine how debates over
heresy stimulated the increasing articulation of arguments for
religious toleration in England. Offering fresh perspectives on
John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume
should be of interest to all literary, religious and political
historians working on early modern English culture.
This is a comprehensive history of English literature written in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While it focuses on England, literary effort in Scotland and Ireland is also covered, with occasional references to Wales and Ireland. This literary history by an international team of scholars is essential reading for students and scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, culture, and history.
This first book-length study explores the relationship between Milton's vision of history and his literary imagination in the revolutionary prose and great poems. It focuses on Milton as a controversial writer actively engaged in shaping, representing, and participating in the drama of history of his age. Highlighting the apocalyptic and iconoclastic components of Milton's historical vision, the book examines the more turbulent dimensions of his polemic and poetic works. Loewenstein stresses the importance of Milton's less canonical texts (such as Eikonoklastes and the History of Britain) and shows how they illuminate the sense of history dramatized in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. Analyzing the literary expressions of Milton's radicalism, this study reveals a complex interaction among historical consciousness and figurative expression, political vision and textual effects.
Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge
Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's
works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about
the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of
conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from
chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war
depicted as a source of great excitement and as a theater of honor;
war depicted from realistic or skeptical perspectives that expose
the butchery, suffering, illness, famine, degradation, and havoc it
causes. The essays in this volume examine the representations and
rhetoric of war throughout Shakespeare's plays, as well as the
modern history of the war plays on stage, in film, and in
propaganda. This book offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's
multifaceted representations of the complexities of early modern
warfare, while at the same time illuminating why his perspectives
on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the
future.
Written by an international team of literary scholars and
historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of
early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's
England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively
reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the
creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions
of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including
Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such
as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure
for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The
collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies,
early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern
history.
When we philosophize we create arguments. This collection brings
together essays on the theory of argumentation, epistemology, the
philosophy of science, existential philosophy, the philosophy of
religion, and metaphilosophy, the core areas of interest of the
philosopher Holm Tetens. The essays demonstrate that even highly
theoretical questions can be of importance to everyday life.
This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of
leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to
examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of
'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions
of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies
in England from the English Reformation to the end of the
seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significant
literary issues involved in both defending and demonising heretical
beliefs, including the contested hermeneutic strategies applied to
the interpretation of the Bible, and they examine how debates over
heresy stimulated the increasing articulation of arguments for
religious toleration in England. Offering fresh perspectives on
John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume
should be of interest to all literary, religious and political
historians working on early modern English culture.
In this book some of the most eminent critics of
seventeenth-century literature and some of the liveliest younger
scholars explore the interconnections between Milton's politics,
poetics and prose writings. While the essays focus on Milton's
prose, they open up interesting perspectives on his major poems and
on seventeenth-century ideologies, theologies and interpretative
practices. Their aim is to bridge the gap between a
history-of-ideas approach and literary/textual analysis, showing
how key ideas - such as authority, divorce, martyrdom or iconoclasm
- stimulate and trouble the imagination of a great writer. These
essays challenge the notion of Milton's prose as an 'achievement of
the left hand', and propose a complex relation between text and
context, the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, issues of
representation and the politics of gender.
David Loewenstein's Representing Revolution in Milton and his
Contemporaries is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of
literature, polemics and religious politics in the English
Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs
and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton,
Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these
revolutionary decades. By examining a wide range of canonical and
non-canonical writers - John Lilburne, Winstanley the Digger and
Milton, amongst others - he reveals how radical Puritans struggled
with the contradictions and ambiguities of the English Revolution
and its political regimes. His portrait of a faction-riven, violent
seventeenth-century revolutionary culture is an original and
significant contribution to our understanding of these turbulent
decades and their aftermath. By placing Milton's great poems in the
context of the period's radical religious politics, it should be of
interest to historians as well as literary scholars.
How did Milton's understanding of history relate to his literary
expression of it? This book explores the role of history in
Milton's literary works. It focuses on the writer's imaginative
responses to the historical process - his interpretations of the
past, visions of the future, and sense of the contemporary
historical moment. David Loewenstein presents Milton as a
controversial writer actively engaged in shaping, representing and
participating in the drama of history of his age. Highlighting the
apocalyptic and iconoclastic components of Milton's historical
vision, the book examines the more turbulent dimensions of his
polemic and poetic works. It stresses the importance of his less
canonical texts, including Eikonoklastes and the History of
Britain, and shows how they illuminate the sense of history
dramatized in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. Analysing the
literary expressions of Milton's radicalism, this study reveals a
complex interaction between consciousness and figurative
expression, political vision and textual effects.
This 2003 book is a full-scale history of early modern English
literature, offering perspectives on English literature produced in
Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While
providing the general coverage and specific information expected of
a major history, its twenty-six chapters address recent
methodological and interpretive developments in English literary
studies. The book has five sections: 'Modes and Means of Literary
Production, Circulation, and Reception', 'The Tudor Era from the
Reformation to Elizabeth I', 'The Era of Elizabeth and James VI',
'The Earlier Stuart Era', and 'The Civil War and Commonwealth Era'.
While England is the principal focus, literary production in
Scotland, Ireland and Wales is treated, as are other subjects less
frequently examined in previous histories, including women's
writings and the literature of the English Reformation and
Revolution. This history is an essential resource for specialists
and students.
In this book, some of the most eminent critics of seventeenth-century literature and some of the liveliest younger scholars explore the interconnections among Milton's politics, poetics, and prose writings. While the essays focus on Milton's prose, they open up new perspectives on his major poems and on seventeenth-century ideologies, theologies, and interpretive practices. These essays challenge the notion of Milton's prose as an "achievement of the left hand," proposing a complex relation between text and context, the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, issues of representation and the politics of gender.
This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these revolutionary decades. Loewenstein's portrait of a faction-riven, violent seventeenth-century revolutionary culture is an original and significant contribution to our understanding of these turbulent decades and their aftermath.
Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary
account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to
the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural
anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the dark,
often brutal story of defining, constructing, and punishing
heretics in early modern England, and especially the ways writers
themselves contributed to or interrogated the politics of religious
fear-mongering and demonizing. It illuminates the terrors and
anxieties early modern writers articulated and the fantasies they
constructed about pernicious heretics and pestilent heresies in
response to the Reformation's shattering of Western Christendom.
Treacherous Faith analyzes early modern writers who contributed to
cultural fears about the contagion of heresy and engaged in the
making of heretics, as well as writers who challenged the
constructions of heretics and the culture of religious
fear-mongering. The responses of early modern writers in English to
the specter of heresy and the making of heretics were varied,
complex, and contradictory, depending on their religious and
political alignments. Some writers (for example, Thomas More,
Richard Bancroft, and Thomas Edwards) used their rhetorical
resourcefulness and inventiveness to contribute to the politics of
heresy-making and the specter of cunning, diabolical heretics
ravaging the Church, the state, and thousands of souls; others (for
example, John Foxe) questioned within certain cultural limitations
heresy-making processes and the violence and savagery that
religious demonizing provoked; and some writers (for example, Anne
Askew, John Milton, and William Walwyn) interrogated with great
daring and inventiveness the politics of religious demonizing,
heresy-making, and the cultural constructions of heretics.
Treacherous Faith examines the complexities and paradoxes of the
heresy-making imagination in early modern England: the dark
fantasies, anxieties, terrors, and violence it was capable of
generating, but also the ways the dreaded specter of heresy could
stimulate the literary creativity of early modern authors engaging
with it from diverse religious and political perspectives.
Treacherous Faith is a major interdisciplinary study of the ways
the literary imagination, religious fears, and demonizing
interacted in the early modern world. This study of the early
modern specter of heresy contributes to work in the humanities
seeking to illuminate the changing dynamics of religious fear, the
rhetoric of religious demonization, and the powerful ways the
literary imagination represents and constructs religious
difference.
Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary
account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to
the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural
anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the dark,
often brutal story of defining, constructing, and punishing
heretics in early modern England, and especially the ways writers
themselves contributed to or interrogated the politics of religious
fear-mongering and demonizing. It illuminates the terrors and
anxieties early modern writers articulated and the fantasies they
constructed about pernicious heretics and pestilent heresies in
response to the Reformation's shattering of Western Christendom.
Treacherous Faith analyzes early modern writers who contributed to
cultural fears about the contagion of heresy and engaged in the
making of heretics, as well as writers who challenged the
constructions of heretics and the culture of religious
fear-mongering. The responses of early modern writers in English to
the specter of heresy and the making of heretics were varied,
complex, and contradictory, depending on their religious and
political alignments. Some writers (for example, Thomas More,
Richard Bancroft, and Thomas Edwards) used their rhetorical
resourcefulness and inventiveness to contribute to the politics of
heresy-making and the specter of cunning, diabolical heretics
ravaging the Church, the state, and thousands of souls; others (for
example, John Foxe) questioned within certain cultural limitations
heresy-making processes and the violence and savagery that
religious demonizing provoked; and some writers (for example, Anne
Askew, John Milton, and William Walwyn) interrogated with great
daring and inventiveness the politics of religious demonizing,
heresy-making, and the cultural constructions of heretics.
Treacherous Faith examines the complexities and paradoxes of the
heresy-making imagination in early modern England: the dark
fantasies, anxieties, terrors, and violence it was capable of
generating, but also the ways the dreaded specter of heresy could
stimulate the literary creativity of early modern authors engaging
with it from diverse religious and political perspectives.
Treacherous Faith is a major interdisciplinary study of the ways
the literary imagination, religious fears, and demonizing
interacted in the early modern world. This study of the early
modern specter of heresy contributes to work in the humanities
seeking to illuminate the changing dynamics of religious fear, the
rhetoric of religious demonization, and the powerful ways the
literary imagination represents and constructs religious
difference.
Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge
Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's
works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about
the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of
conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from
chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war
depicted as a source of great excitement and as a theater of honor;
war depicted from realistic or skeptical perspectives that expose
the butchery, suffering, illness, famine, degradation, and havoc it
causes. The essays in this volume examine the representations and
rhetoric of war throughout Shakespeare's plays, as well as the
modern history of the war plays on stage, in film, and in
propaganda. This book offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's
multifaceted representations of the complexities of early modern
warfare, while at the same time illuminating why his perspectives
on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the
future.
This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to
one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide
highlights Milton's imaginative daring as he boldly revises the
epic tradition, brilliantly elaborates upon Genesis, and shapes his
ambitious narrative in order to retell the story of the Fall. The
book considers the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its
theology, while situating Milton's great poem in its literary,
religious, and political contexts. A concluding chapter addresses
the influence of Milton's sublime poem as a source of creative
inspiration for later writers, from the Restoration to the
Romantics. Finally, the volume offers an extremely useful and
updated guide to further reading, which students will find
invaluable.
This is the first edition of the complete works of Gerrard
Winstanley (1609-76), the foremost radical English thinker and
activist of the English Revolution. It is the only edition to
observe the standards of modern scholarly editing. The editorial
team combines the expertise of acclaimed prize-winning literary
scholars and a leading historian of seventeenth-century England. It
sets a new standard in the presentation of controversial prose of
the period of the English Civil War. Its substantial introduction
establishes Winstanley's distinctive contributions to political
thought and radical religion and elucidates his literary
achievements, while the annotation elucidates the wealth of his
biblical allusion and his engagement with the politics of his day.
This edition ensures Winstanley's standing as one of the most
significant prose writers and radical thinkers of early modern
England. All scholars and students of English literature, history,
religion, and political thought will want to use this book.
This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton’s imaginative daring as he boldly revises the epic tradition, brilliantly elaborates upon Genesis, and shapes his ambitious narrative in order to retell the story of the Fall. The book considers the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology, while situating Milton’s great poem in its literary, religious, and political contexts. A concluding chapter addresses the influence of Milton’s sublime poem as a source of creative inspiration for later writers, from the Restoration to the Romantics. Finally, the volume offers an extremely useful and newly updated guide to further reading, which students will find invaluable.
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