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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255252403321

Autore

Stegner Paul D

Titolo

Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature : Penitential Remains / / by Paul D. Stegner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-55861-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Early Modern Literature in History

Disciplina

820.9/003

Soggetti

Poetry

Literature, Modern

British literature

Poetry and Poetics

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

British and Irish Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.