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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Baldo is Professor of English at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New YorkIsabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Würzburg, Germany Klappentext This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate, displace or suspend confessional conflict in and through literature. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation! thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate! displace or suspend confessional conflict in and through literature. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: A world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England - Jonathan Baldo and Isabel KarremannPart I: Religious ritual and literary form2. Shylock celebrates Easter - Brooke Conti3. Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations - Phebe Jensen4. Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho - Jacqueline Wylde5. Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances - Christina Wald6. Edmund Spenser's The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration - Isabel KarremannPart II: Negotiating confessional conflict7. Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in Samuel Rowley's When You See Me You Know Me (1605) - Brian Walsh8. Tragic mediation in The White Devil - Thomas J. Moretti9. 'A deed without a name:' evading theology in Macbeth - James R. Macdonald10. Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict - Mary A. Blackstone11. Formal experimentation and the question of Donne's ecumenicalism - Alexandra M. Block12. Foucault, confession, and Donne - Joel M. DodsonAfterword: Reformed indifferently - Richard WilsonIndex...
