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

• Autore: Stegner Paul D
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/003
• Soggetto topico: Poetry; Literature, Modern; British literature; Poetry and Poetics; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; British and Irish Literature
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature
• ISBN: 1-137-55861-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255252403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Early Modern Literature in History