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Book The Puritan Literary Tradition

Download or read book The Puritan Literary Tradition written by Johanna Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is meant by the Puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of Puritan literature, as distinct from Puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? The answer is not straightforward. This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging literary subjects that help to articulate the Puritan literary tradition, including: political polemic and the performing arts; conversion and New-World narratives; individual and corporate life-writings; histories of exile and womens history; book history and the translation and circulation of Puritan literature abroad; Puritan epistolary networks; discourses of Puritan friendship; the historiography of Puritanism defined through editing and publishing; doctrinal controversy; and the history of emotions. This essay collection proposes that a Puritan literary tradition existed that was distinct from broader conceptions of early modern English and Protestant traditions and offers a nuanced account of the distinct and variegated contribution that Puritanism has made to the construction of literature as a concept in English. It ranges from the late sixteenth through to the nineteenth century, and spans British, European, and American Puritan cultures. It offers new analyses of well-known Puritan writers such as Anne Bradstreet, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, and John Milton, as well as less familiar figures, such as Mary Rowlandson and Joseph Hussey, and writers less often associated with Puritanism, such as Andrew Marvell and Aphra Behn.

Book A Companion to Milton

Download or read book A Companion to Milton written by Thomas N. Corns and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work. Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar. Looks at literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, other relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time. Devotes a whole chapter to each major poem, and four to Paradise Lost. Conveys the excitement of recent developments in the field.

Book A Manual of the English Constitution

Download or read book A Manual of the English Constitution written by David Rowland and published by London : John Murray. This book was released on 1859 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783  with Notes and Other Illustrations

Download or read book A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783 with Notes and Other Illustrations written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treacherous Faith

Download or read book Treacherous Faith written by David Loewenstein and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the dark, often brutal story of defining, constructing, and punishing heretics in early modern England, and especially the ways writers themselves contributed to or interrogated the politics of religious fear-mongering and demonizing. It illuminates the terrors and anxieties early modern writers articulated and the fantasies they constructed about pernicious heretics and pestilent heresies in response to the Reformation's shattering of Western Christendom. Treacherous Faith analyzes early modern writers who contributed to cultural fears about the contagion of heresy and engaged in the making of heretics, as well as writers who challenged the constructions of heretics and the culture of religious fear-mongering. The responses of early modern writers in English to the specter of heresy and the making of heretics were varied, complex, and contradictory, depending on their religious and political alignments. Some writers (for example, Thomas More, Richard Bancroft, and Thomas Edwards) used their rhetorical resourcefulness and inventiveness to contribute to the politics of heresy-making and the specter of cunning, diabolical heretics ravaging the Church, the state, and thousands of souls; others (for example, John Foxe) questioned within certain cultural limitations heresy-making processes and the violence and savagery that religious demonizing provoked; and some writers (for example, Anne Askew, John Milton, and William Walwyn) interrogated with great daring and inventiveness the politics of religious demonizing, heresy-making, and the cultural constructions of heretics. Treacherous Faith examines the complexities and paradoxes of the heresy-making imagination in early modern England: the dark fantasies, anxieties, terrors, and violence it was capable of generating, but also the ways the dreaded specter of heresy could stimulate the literary creativity of early modern authors engaging with it from diverse religious and political perspectives. Treacherous Faith is a major interdisciplinary study of the ways the literary imagination, religious fears, and demonizing interacted in the early modern world. This study of the early modern specter of heresy contributes to work in the humanities seeking to illuminate the changing dynamics of religious fear, the rhetoric of religious demonization, and the powerful ways the literary imagination represents and constructs religious difference.

Book From the reign of Edward IV  to the reign of Elizabeth

Download or read book From the reign of Edward IV to the reign of Elizabeth written by John Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reformation of the Constitution

Download or read book The Reformation of the Constitution written by Ian Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits one of the defining judicial engagements in English legal history. It provides a fresh account of the years 1606 to 1616 which witnessed a series of increasingly volatile confrontations between, on the one side, King James I and his Attorney-General, Sir Francis Bacon, and on the other, Sir Edward Coke, successively Chief Justice of Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice. At the heart of the dispute were differing opinions regarding the nature of kingship and the reach of prerogative in reformation England. Appreciating the longer context, in the summer of 1616 King James appealed for a reformation of law and constitution to complement the reformation of his Church. Later historians would discern in these debates the seeding of a century of revolution, followed by another four centuries of reform. This book ventures the further thought that the arguments which echoed around Westminster Hall in the first years of the seventeenth century have lost little of their resonance half a millennium on. Breaks with Rome are little easier to 'get done', the margins of executive governance little easier to draw.

Book The History of the Puritans  Or  Protestant Noncomformists  from the Reformation to the Death of Queen Elizabeth   with an Account of Their Principles  Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church  Their Sufferings  and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines

Download or read book The History of the Puritans Or Protestant Noncomformists from the Reformation to the Death of Queen Elizabeth with an Account of Their Principles Their Attempts for a Farther Reformation in the Church Their Sufferings and the Lives and Characters of Their Most Considerable Divines written by Daniel Neal and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Puritans  Or Protestant Non conformists

Download or read book The History of the Puritans Or Protestant Non conformists written by Daniel Neal and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Puritans  Or  Protestant Nonconformists

Download or read book The History of the Puritans Or Protestant Nonconformists written by Daniel Neal and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masterless Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : A.L. Beier
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-09-29
  • ISBN : 1000967395
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Masterless Men written by A.L. Beier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterless Men (1985) examines the nature of vagrancy in Tudor and Stuart England, an issue that many contemporary authorities regarded as their most serious social problems. It looks at why vagrancy was felt to be such a threat to the stability of the country, and the steps the authorities took to overcome the problem.

Book Grace Overwhelming

Download or read book Grace Overwhelming written by Anne Dunan-Page and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the 2007 National Research Prize SAES/AEFA. This study is a reappraisal of John Bunyan in the light of the dissenting religious culture of the late-seventeenth century. Charges of schism and fanaticism were repeatedly levelled against Bunyan, both from within the dissenting community and without, but far from being chastened by these accusations, Bunyan responded with a religious discourse marked by a rhetoric of excess. The focus of this book is therefore upon Bunyan's overwhelming spiritual experiences, especially the representation of torment, in his literary and polemical works. The believers' suffering was an obsessive concern of dissenting ministers, even to the point where their writings are often remembered today for little else. Hitherto, most scholars have termed all the mental states that they invoke 'despair', but this simplifies the experiences at issue. A wealth of contemporary material helps to restore the nuances of seventeenth-century physical and spiritual conditions, from enthusiasm to melancholy and madness; from fear to desertion and sloth. These chapters explore fresh ways in which this subtle typology of torment and its extreme manifestations form the core of the literary expression of Restoration dissent, challenging Bunyan to represent spiritual equilibrium as the ultimate quest of the earthly pilgrimage.

Book The Annals of England

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Edward Flaherty
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1857
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book The Annals of England written by William Edward Flaherty and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: