Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England

Klappentext Reid Barbour's 2002 study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I. Zusammenfassung Reid Barbour's 2002 study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625–1649) to offer an extensive appraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: spirit and circumstances 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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• Authors: Barbour, Reid Barbour, Reid (University of North Carolina Barbour, Barbour Reid
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521809474
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80947-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800