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UNINA9910255252403321 |
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Autore |
Stegner Paul D |
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Titolo |
Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature : Penitential Remains / / by Paul D. Stegner |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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Early Modern Literature in History |
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Soggetti |
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Poetry |
Literature, Modern |
British literature |
Poetry and Poetics |
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature |
British and Irish Literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Confession and memory in the age of reformations -- Confession and redemptive forgetting in Spenser's Legend of holiness: memories of sin, memories of salvation -- The will to forget: Ovidian heroism and the compulsion to confess in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- "Try what repentance can": Hamlet, confession, and the extraction of interiority -- Will and the reconciled maid: rereading confession and remembering sin in Shake-speares sonnets -- Treasonous reconciliations: Robert Southwell, religious polemic, and the criminalization of confession -- Conclusion: memories of confession in seventeenth-century England. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell. |
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