LEADER 04285nam 2200781 450 001 9910812462703321 005 20230508051500.0 010 $a1-4426-5632-8 010 $a1-4426-3303-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442656321 035 $a(CKB)3710000000433115 035 $a(EBL)3432062 035 $a(OCoLC)929153685 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001535706 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11926698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001535706 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11503241 035 $a(PQKB)10387157 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669533 035 $a(CEL)449897 035 $a(OCoLC)914189072 035 $a(CaBNVSL)kck00235735 035 $a(DE-B1597)465687 035 $a(OCoLC)944178709 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442656321 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669533 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256065 035 $a(OCoLC)958564643 035 $a(OCoLC)1082840768 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107054 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000433115 100 $a20160920h19791979 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a"Betwixt jest and earnest" $eMarprelate, Milton, Marvell, Swift & the decorum of religious ridicule /$fRaymond A. Anselment 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1979. 210 4$dİ1979 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4426-5143-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t'Nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which ar not convenient' --$tThe Marprelate Tracts --$tJohn Milton contra Hall --$tThe rehearsal transpros'd --$tA tale of a tub. 330 $aMarprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift are among the best prose satirists in a remarkably rich literary era. Focusing on these key figures, 'Betwixt Jest and Earnest' examines the theory and practice of religious prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Recognizing the difficulties inherent in attempting to transform unimaginative animadversion into effective satire, it analyses the ways in which Marprelate's tracts, Milton's anti-prelatical satires, Marvell's The Rehearsal Transpros'd, and Swift's A Tale of a Tub variously resolve the decorum of religious satire. Although the study is not specifically an intellectual history or a rigid definition of religious attitudes towards jest, it does bring together basic symptoms of altering sensibilities in the period. Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift represent diverse religious dispositions, but they share a similar satiric vision. Each recognizes the central importance of manner, and all develop dramatic satire heavily dependent on character, an emphasis which often displaces the immediate issues contested, but never obscures the larger concerns the satirists pursue. Their preoccupations with the nature of tradition, their emphasis on the self, and their sensitivity to language reflect similar involvements in questions of certainty and absolutism. The virtues and abuses they find in such central questions are not unique to them or their time, but their emphases are, for they wrote in an age in which sensitive men could confront revolution and reaction with an assurance not easily attainable once that era had passed. 606 $aSatire, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish prose literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChurch polity in literature 606 $aReligious satire, English$xHistory and criticism 607 $aGreat Britain$xChurch history 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aChurch history. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSatire, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChurch polity in literature. 615 0$aReligious satire, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a827/.009 700 $aAnselment$b Raymond A.$0193329 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812462703321 996 $a"Betwixt jest and earnest"$94073751 997 $aUNINA