Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / / Dennis Austin Britton
| Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / / Dennis Austin Britton |
| Autore | Britton Dennis Austin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Religion and literature - England - History - 16th century Religion and literature - England - History - 17th century Conversion in literature Christians in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8232-5717-7
0-8232-6083-6 0-8232-5715-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White -- 1. “The Baptiz’d Race” -- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance -- 5. Reproducing Christians -- Afterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464382603321 |
Britton Dennis Austin
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| New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / / Dennis Austin Britton
| Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / / Dennis Austin Britton |
| Autore | Britton Dennis Austin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Religion and literature - England - History - 16th century Religion and literature - England - History - 17th century Conversion in literature Christians in literature |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Baptism
Church of England Edmund Spenser English literature Jews Muslims Race Romance William Shakespeare conversion |
| ISBN |
0-8232-5717-7
0-8232-6083-6 0-8232-5715-0 |
| Classificazione | LIT004120LIT015000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White -- 1. “The Baptiz’d Race” -- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance -- 5. Reproducing Christians -- Afterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789373303321 |
Britton Dennis Austin
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| New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / / Dennis Austin Britton
| Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / / Dennis Austin Britton |
| Autore | Britton Dennis Austin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Religion and literature - England - History - 16th century Religion and literature - England - History - 17th century Conversion in literature Christians in literature |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Baptism
Church of England Edmund Spenser English literature Jews Muslims Race Romance William Shakespeare conversion |
| ISBN |
0-8232-5717-7
0-8232-6083-6 0-8232-5715-0 |
| Classificazione | LIT004120LIT015000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White -- 1. “The Baptiz’d Race” -- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance -- 5. Reproducing Christians -- Afterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Entangled voices : genre and the religious construction of the self / / Frederick J. Ruf
| Entangled voices : genre and the religious construction of the self / / Frederick J. Ruf |
| Autore | Ruf Frederick J. <1950-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 125 p |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Soggetto topico |
Religious literature, English - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Self in literature Literary form |
| ISBN |
9780195356199
0195356195 0-19-985345-2 1-4294-1560-6 1-280-52859-1 0-19-535619-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: hearing voices -- ; ch. 1. The voices of narrative, lyric, and drama: The three characteristics of narrative -- Lyric -- Drama -- ; ch. 2. "Jogona's great treasure": narrative, lyric, and dramatic intelligibility: Intelligibility: Comprehensiveness and cohesion -- Conclusions -- ; ch. 3. "Intoxicated with intimacy": the lyric voice in John Donne's Holy sonnets: Unruly autobiography -- Donne's Holy sonnets -- Donne's lyric self -- The lyric voice -- ; ch. 4. "The circle of chalk": narrative voice in Primo Levi's The periodic table: The periodic table -- The aspiration to narrative -- Narrative instability -- "The rich and messy domain" -- ; ch. 5. "Survival and distance": the dramatic voice in Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach: Einstein on the beach -- Dramatic voice in Einstein -- The dramatic voice and religion -- The dramatic self -- ; ch.. 6. "Harmonized chaos": the mixed voice of Coleridge's Biographia literaria: The biographia literaria -- The form of the Biographia -- Dissociation, fragmentation, and incoherence -- Harmony and unity -- Ramifications: the "mixed" self -- ; ch. 7. Conclusion: genre and instability. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910956354203321 |
Ruf Frederick J. <1950->
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The fringes of belief [[electronic resource] ] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / / Sarah Ellenzweig
| The fringes of belief [[electronic resource] ] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / / Sarah Ellenzweig |
| Autore | Ellenzweig Sarah |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism Free thought in literature Christianity and literature - England - History - 17th century Christianity and literature - England - History - 18th century Free thought - England - History - 17th century Free thought - England - History - 18th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8047-6979-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : literary culture, the classical past, and the rise of Restoration freethinking -- Libertine precursors. Rochester, Blount, and the faith of unbelief -- Behn, Fontenelle, and the cheats of revealed religion -- Skepticism and piety. Swift's Tale of a tub and the anthropology of religion -- Suspending disbelief : Swift, credulity, and the pious fraud -- Conclusion : Pope's "Essay on man" and the afterlife of English freethinking. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454920303321 |
Ellenzweig Sarah
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| Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The fringes of belief [[electronic resource] ] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / / Sarah Ellenzweig
| The fringes of belief [[electronic resource] ] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / / Sarah Ellenzweig |
| Autore | Ellenzweig Sarah |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism Free thought in literature Christianity and literature - England - History - 17th century Christianity and literature - England - History - 18th century Free thought - England - History - 17th century Free thought - England - History - 18th century |
| ISBN | 0-8047-6979-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : literary culture, the classical past, and the rise of Restoration freethinking -- Libertine precursors. Rochester, Blount, and the faith of unbelief -- Behn, Fontenelle, and the cheats of revealed religion -- Skepticism and piety. Swift's Tale of a tub and the anthropology of religion -- Suspending disbelief : Swift, credulity, and the pious fraud -- Conclusion : Pope's "Essay on man" and the afterlife of English freethinking. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778207003321 |
Ellenzweig Sarah
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| Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imagining Religious Toleration : A Literary History of an Idea, 1600-1830 / / Alison Conway, David Alvarez
| Imagining Religious Toleration : A Literary History of an Idea, 1600-1830 / / Alison Conway, David Alvarez |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Soggetto topico | English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Defoe
Enlightenment Merchant of Venice Milton Shakespeare eighteenth-century novel literary studies literature and religion literature religious toleration rhetoric satire tolerance tropes |
| ISBN |
1-4875-1397-6
1-4875-1396-8 |
| Classificazione | cci1icc |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imagining Religious Toleration / Conway, Alison -- 1. Shylock, Conversion, Toleration / Yachnin, Paul -- 2. New World Behn: Toleration, Geography, and the Question of Humanity / Achinstein, Sharon -- 3. Blind or Blindfolded? Disability, Religious Difference, and Milton's Samson Agonistes / Mckendry, Andrew -- 4. Imagining Worlds and Figuring Toleration: Freedom, Diversity, and Violence in A Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World / Harol, Corrinne -- 5. How to Handle the Intolerant: The Education of Pierre Bayle / Russo, Elena -- 6. The Difference Enlightenment Satire Makes to Religion: Hudibras to Hebdo / Alvarez, David -- 7. Daniel Defoe and the Geopolitics of Islamic Toleration / Garcia, Humberto -- 8. The Toleration of Enthusiasts / Picciotto, Joanna -- 9. Joseph Priestley's Romantic Progressivism / Canuel, Mark -- 10. Translating Love in Prometheus Unbound / Jager, Colin -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793760903321 |
| Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lake Methodism : Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / / Jasper Cragwall
| Lake Methodism : Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / / Jasper Cragwall |
| Autore | Cragwall Jasper Albert <1977-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Collana | Literature, religion, and postsecular studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Methodism - Influence
Methodism - History Methodism in literature Romanticism - Great Britain Religion and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Religion and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8142-7109-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "Lake Methodism" and the lows of high argument -- "Elocution to the mute" : Anglican authority and the cultural revolt of Methodism -- Wordsworth and the ragged legion : poets, priests, and preachers -- Sage or Sibyl? A lay sermon -- Joanna Southcott's body, and the posthumous life of romantic prophecy -- Resurrection, the new birth, and vital Christianity : the Methodism to Frankenstein's madness. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524878203321 |
Cragwall Jasper Albert <1977->
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| Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lay piety and religious discipline in Middle English literature / / Nicole R. Rice [[electronic resource]]
| Lay piety and religious discipline in Middle English literature / / Nicole R. Rice [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Rice Nicole R. <1973-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Collana | Cambridge studies in medieval literature |
| Soggetto topico |
English prose literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism
English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism Religion and literature - England - History - To 1500 Spiritual life in literature Spiritual life - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 Religious thought - Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
| ISBN |
1-107-20165-9
1-281-98292-X 9786611982928 0-511-46476-2 0-511-57550-5 0-511-46323-5 0-511-46550-5 0-511-46243-3 0-511-46402-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Translations of the cloister : regulating spiritual aspiration -- Dialogic form and clerical understanding -- Lordship, pastoral care, and the order of charity -- Clerical widows and the reform of preaching -- Conclusion : spiritual guides in fifteenth-century books : cultural change and continuity. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Lay Piety & Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248334303316 |
Rice Nicole R. <1973->
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660-1780 [[electronic resource] /] / Howard D. Weinbrot
| Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660-1780 [[electronic resource] /] / Howard D. Weinbrot |
| Autore | Weinbrot Howard D |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/382 |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Religion and literature - Great Britain Literature and society - Great Britain |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4214-0860-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. The Groundwork of Change""; ""Eighteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory""; ""Practical Awareness""; ""The Chapters and a Definition""; ""A Note on Notes""; ""PART I. THREATS TO THE SPECIES: Madness, Discontent, and the Danger of Dissolution""; ""Chapter 1. Causation and Contexts of Hatred: Savage Beasts Mortal and Deadly""; ""Conjuring Up Reasons: Original Sin, Fragile Connections, Church and State""; ""Aristocratic Historiography: Advocacy and Resistance""; ""Metaphorical Enhancements: Floods, Propagation, Legions, and Dutch Treats""
""Chapter 2. Madness, Extirpation, and Defoe's Shortest Way with the Dissenters""""Madness""; ""Root and Branch""; ""Defoe's Shortest Way, Sacheverell's Political Union, and Religious Conflict""; ""The Shortest Way: The Bible and Other Clues beyond the Obvious""; ""Response and Judgment""; ""Defoe as a Character of His Own Creation""; ""PART II. TAKING THE CURE AND IMPROVING THE SPECIES: Sermons, Compulsion, and Methodists""; ""Chapter 3. The Thirtieth of January Sermon: From Extermination to Inclusion""; ""The Thirtieth of January Sermon and Royalist Law"" ""The High Church Response and the Beginning of Change""""Higher Church and Moderate Responses to the High Church Response""; ""Raising the Decibels in a Lowered Church""; ""State, Not Church""; ""God's Hand, William's Hand, and the Divine Right of Government""; ""Retrospective""; ""Chapter 4. Compel Them to Come In,Luke 14:23: From Persecution to Persuasion; Against Augustinian Compulsion""; ""Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: Response and Rage""; ""Contexts Changed and Augustine Charged""; ""Happy Had His Works Not Been Preserved""; ""Persuade Them to Come In"" ""Adopt Men From All the Nations of the Earth: Equianos Conversion""""Chapter 5. Methodism: From Antagonist to Relation""; ""The Spreading Fog""; ""Reforming the Reformation? Reforming Reform?""; ""Grudging Acceptance""; ""Humphry Clinker: Joining the Family""; ""PART III. EVOLUTIONARY REVERSION: The Gordon Riots, Return to Rage, and Reinventing a Cure""; ""Chapter 6. DajaVu All Over Again? The Gordon Riots; Bedlam Revisited, Restoration of Order, and a Trial on Trial""; ""Repeal, No Popery, and the Gordon Riots: Destruction and the Puritan Redivivus"" ""Renovating the Language of Cultural Regress""""Church, State, and Political Causation""; ""Strategies of Defense and Alternative Responses""; ""What Is to Depose the Sword?: The Return to Order; Debate, Arrest, Trial, and Consequences""; ""The Trial of Lord George Gordon for Treason, 1781""; ""Chapter 7. A Very Near Thing: State Terrorism, the Fury of the Aggrieved, and Incompatibility with the Safety of Millions""; ""A River Too Far""; ""The Trials of Lord George Gordon, 1786-1787, and Excommunication"" ""The Trials of Lord George Gordon, 1786-1787: Libeling France and Britain"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463574903321 |
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| Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 | ||
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