Literature and religious culture in seventeenth-century England

Literature and religious culture in seventeenth-century England / Reid Barbour.

"Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625-1649). In the decades leading to the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of hero...

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Main Author: Barbour, Reid
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Religion and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Protestantism and literature > History > 17th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Christianity and literature
English literature > Early modern
Intellectual life
Protestantism and literature
Religion and literature
Protestantismus
Literatur
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Godsdienst.
Protestantisme.
Great Britain > History > Charles I, 1625-1649.
England > Intellectual life > 17th century.
England > Church history > 17th century.
England
Great Britain
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Church history
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: spirit and circumstance in Caroline Protestantism
  • 1. The church heroic: Charles, Laud, and Little Gidding
  • 2. Great Tew and the skeptical hero
  • 3. Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful
  • 4. Respecting persons
  • 5. Decorum and redemption in the theater of the person
  • 6. Nature (I): post-Baconian mysteries
  • 7. Nature (II): church and cosmos
  • Conclusion: Rome, Massachusetts, and the Caroline Protestant imagination.

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