LEADER 04406nam 2200697 450 001 9910464890003321 005 20211012004535.0 010 $a0-8122-0921-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209211 035 $a(CKB)3710000000085997 035 $a(OCoLC)869904636 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10831216 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001115571 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12411607 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115571 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11083622 035 $a(PQKB)10124436 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442328 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32968 035 $a(DE-B1597)449814 035 $a(OCoLC)961656553 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209211 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442328 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10831216 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682609 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000085997 100 $a20140210h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConfessions of faith in early modern England /$fBrooke Conti 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51327-9 311 0 $a0-8122-4575-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on Spelling and Punctuation --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. James VI and I and the Autobiographical Double Bind --$tChapter 2. Conversion and Confession in Donne?s Prose --$tChapter 3. Milton and Autobiography in Crisis --$tChapter 4. Thomas Browne?s Uneasy Confession of Faith --$tChapter 5 John Bunyan?s Double Autobiography --$tChapter 6 James II and the End of the Confession of Faith --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAs seventeenth-century England wrestled with the aftereffects of the Reformation, the personal frequently conflicted with the political. In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography. John Milton famously interrupts his arguments against episcopacy with autobiographical accounts of his poetic hopes and dreams, while John Donne's attempts to describe his conversion from Catholicism wind up obscuring rather than explaining. Similar moments appear in the works of Thomas Browne, John Bunyan, and the two King Jameses themselves. These autobiographies are familiar enough that their peculiarities have frequently been overlooked in scholarship, but as Brooke Conti notes, they sit uneasily within their surrounding material as well as within the conventions of confessional literature that preceded them. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England positions works such as Milton's political tracts, Donne's polemical and devotional prose, Browne's Religio Medici, and Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners as products of the era's tense political climate, illuminating how the pressures of public self-declaration and allegiance led to autobiographical writings that often concealed more than they revealed. For these authors, autobiography was less a genre than a device to negotiate competing political, personal, and psychological demands. The complex works Conti explores provide a privileged window into the pressures placed on early modern religious identity, underscoring that it was no simple matter for these authors to tell the truth of their interior life?even to themselves. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aReligion and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aAuthors, English$xReligious life 606 $aAutobiography$xReligious aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAuthors, English$xReligious life. 615 0$aAutobiography$xReligious aspects. 676 $a820.9/3582 700 $aConti$b Brooke$01045475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464890003321 996 $aConfessions of faith in early modern England$92471789 997 $aUNINA