Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Susannah Brietz Monta is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. Klappentext A comprehensive comparison of the representations of early modern Protestant and Catholic martyrs. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive comparison of how Protestant and Catholic martyrs were represented during the Reformation! the most intense period of religious persecution in English history. Monta pays extended attention to many texts popular in their own day but now considered unliterary or insignificant. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Non poena sed causa: Martyrdom and the Hermeneutics of Controversy: 1. Controverting consciences; 2. Too many brides: the interpretive community and ecclesiological controversy; 3. Material witnesses; Part II. Conflicting Testimonies in the English Literary Imagination; 4. En route to the New Jerusalem: martyrdom and religious allegory; 5. When the truth hurts: suffering and religious confidence in Robert Southwell and John Donne; 6. The polemics of conscience in the history play; 7. Martyrdom, nostalgia, and political engagement; Conclusion: admiration and fear.

Product details

• Authors: Susannah Brietz Monta, Susannah Brietz (Louisiana State University Monta, Monta Susannah Brietz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2005
• EAN: 9780521844987
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84498-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval