LEADER 02990nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910823312803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-22850-7 010 $a1-282-25624-6 010 $a9786612256240 010 $a0-203-87134-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773664 035 $a(EBL)446926 035 $a(OCoLC)456218674 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000193161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180290 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10216685 035 $a(PQKB)11667729 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC446926 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL446926 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10326755 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL225624 035 $a(PPN)143886622 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773664 100 $a19820914d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiterature in Protestant England, 1560-1660$b[electronic resource] /$fAlan Sinfield 210 $aAbindon, Oxon $cRoutledge$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (154 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge revivals 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-55997-9 311 $a0-415-55290-7 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $aBook 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 330 $aThe 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.