Inventing Polemic - Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Jesse M. Lander is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include Renaissance Drama! the Reformation! and Shakespeare Studies. Klappentext An investigation into the contexts of print! polemic! and religious debate in Renaissance literature. Zusammenfassung Jesse Lander investigates the contexts of print! polemic! and religious debate in Renaissance literature. Wide-ranging in its consideration of literary and polemical texts! this study is an important contribution to the history of the book and the wider political and religious contexts of early modern literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The disorder of books; 1. Foxe's Books of Martyrs: printing and popularizing the Actes and Monuments; 2. Martin Marprelate and the fugitive text; 3. 'Whole Hamlets': Q1, Q2, and the work of distinction; 4. Printing Donne: poetry and polemic in the early seventeenth century; 5. Areopagitica and 'The True Warfaring Christian'; 6. Institutionalizing polemic: the rise and fall of Chelsea College; Epilogue: Polite learning.

Product details

• Authors: Jesse M. Lander, Jesse M. (University of Notre Dame Lander
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521120241
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12024-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies