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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455144103321

Autore

Sinfield Alan

Titolo

Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Sinfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abindon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-22850-7

1-282-25624-6

9786612256240

0-203-87134-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

820.9003

820/.9/382

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Christianity and literature

Protestantism and literature

Reformation - England

Electronic books.

Great Britain Intellectual life 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Foreword; 1 Theoretical perspectives; 2 Protestantism: a belief of contradictories; 3 Puritan humanists; 4 Who bids abstain?; 5 Heroic assertion; 6 Providence and tragedy; 7 The reformation and secular society; Editions Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The hardline, uncompromising theology preached by the English Church in the 16th and 17th Centuries had disturbing effects on the literature of the period. This study, originally published in 1983, assesses the importance of the prevailing religious climate to the work of several major writers, both in and out of sympathy with the contemporary protestantism. It is argued that the accepted view of the period as essentially 'Christian-Humanist' obscures the harsher aspects of a Calvinism which throws into relief the agonies of a writer like



Donne, the acceptances of one like George Herbert.</