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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.
Yearly volume containing seven new essays on topics from the
Metaphysical Poets to Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Milton. Renaissance
Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each
year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The Conference
accepts papers on all subjects relating to the Renaissance--music,
art, history,literature, etc.--from scholars all over North America
and the world. Of the seven essays in the 2004 volume, three have
to do with the Metaphysical Poets; among the topics here are the
significant use of chiasmus in the poetry of Donne and Herbert,
reading Donne's Virginian Company sermon in its context, and the
religion of Crashaw. Other essays consider the John Eliot
emendation in The Life of King Henry V, the justice and rationality
of authority in The Winter's Tale, Marlowe's poetry of allusion and
substitution in Hero and Leander, and the shape of Book X of
Milton's Paradise Lost. Contributors: Anne Coldiron, Andrew Harvey,
Pamela Royston Macfie, Joseph A. Porter, Jeanne Shami, Kay
Gilliland Stevenson, and John N. Wall. M. Thomas Hester is
Professor of English, and Christopher Cobb is Assistant Professor
of English, both at North Carolina State University.
The Oxford Handbook of John Donne presents scholars with the
history of Donne studies and provides tools to orient scholarship
in this field in the twenty-first century and beyond. Though
profoundly historical in its orientation, the Handbook is not a
summary of existing knowledge but a resource that reveals patterns
of literary and historical attention and the new directions that
these patterns enable or obstruct. Part I - Research resources in
Donne Studies and why they they matter - emphasizes the heuristic
and practical orientation of the Handbook, examining prevailing
assumptions and reviewing the specialized scholarly tools
available. This section provides a brief evaluation and description
of the scholarly strengths, shortcomings, and significance of each
resource, focusing on a balanced evaluation of the opportunities
and the hazards each offers. Part II- - Donne's genres - begins
with an introduction that explores the significance and
differentiation of the numerous genres in which Donne wrote,
including discussion of the problems posed by his overlapping and
bending of genres. Essays trace the conventions and histories of
the genres concered and study the ways in which Donne's works
confirm how and why his 'fresh invention' illustrates his responses
to the literary and non-literary contexts of their composition.
Part III - Biographical and historical contexts- - creates
perspective on what is known about Donne's life; shows how his life
and writings epitomized and affected important controversial issues
of his day; and brings to bear on Donne studies some of the most
stimulating and creative ideas developed in recent decades by
historians of early modern England. Part IV- - Problems of literary
interpretation that have been traditionally and generally important
in Donne Studies- - introduces students and researchers to major
critical debates affecting the reception of Donne from the 17th
through to the 21st centuries. Contents List
New studies offer a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career,
making a polemical case for studying the full range of his
writings. During his life, John Donne occupied a range of
professional positions, in all of which he produced writings
considered by his contemporaries to be worthy of interest,
collection and annotation. Donne's lifetime also coincided with the
period during which the notion of the profession became
increasingly significant. This volume makes a strong argument for
the importance of Donne's professional writings to our
understanding of his oeuvre and of the cultureof late sixteenth-
and early seventeenth-century England. Studying in depth his
remarkable use of a wide range of terms and even whole vocabularies
- legal, theological, and medical, among others - it shows how
Donne moulded his identity as a professional intellectual with the
languages that were at hand. A tightly focussed series of essays by
scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the
field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and
fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of
Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full
range of his writings.Contributors: JAMES CANNON, DAVID CUNNINGTON,
LOUISA. KNAFLA, PETER MCCULLOUGH, JESSICA MARTIN, JEREMY MAULE,
MARY MORRISSEY, STEPHEN PENDER, JEANNE SHAMI, ALISON SHELL, JOHANN
P. SOMMERVILLE.DAVID COLCLOUGH is a lecturer at Queen Mary,
University of London.
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