Forms of Faith - Literary Form and Religious Conflict in Early Modern England

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction: A world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England - Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann
Part I: Religious ritual and literary form
2. Shylock celebrates Easter - Brooke Conti
3. Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations - Phebe Jensen
4. Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho - Jacqueline Wylde
5. Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances - Christina Wald
6. Edmund Spenser's The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration - Isabel Karremann
Part II: Negotiating confessional conflict
7. 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 Walsh
8. Tragic mediation in The White Devil - Thomas J. Moretti
9. 'A deed without a name:' evading theology in Macbeth - James R. Macdonald
10. Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict - Mary A. Blackstone
11. Formal experimentation and the question of Donne's ecumenicalism - Alexandra M. Block
12. Foucault, confession, and Donne - Joel M. Dodson
Afterword: Reformed indifferently - Richard Wilson
Index

About the author

Jonathan Baldo is Professor of English at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York

Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Würzburg, Germany

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Karremann Baldo
• Assisted by: Jonathan Baldo (Editor), Baldo Jonathan (Editor), Isabel Karremann (Editor), Karremann Isabel (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781526143549
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4354-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, RELIGION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, RELIGION / Christianity / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Religion: general, Religious issues & debates, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance