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This handbook scrutinises the links between English literature and religion, specifically in the early modern period; the interactions between the two fields are explored through an examination of the literary impact the British church had on published work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
List of contents
- Part One. The Religious History of Early Modern Britain: Forms, Practices, Beliefs
- 1: Stephen Kelly: The Pre-Reformation Landscape
- 2: David Bagchi: The Henrician Reform
- 3: John N. King: Religious Change in the Mid-Tudor Period
- 4: Torrance Kirby: The Elizabethan Church of England and the origins of Anglicanism
- 5: Charles W. A. Prior: Early Stuart Controversy: Church, State and the Sacred
- 6: Jacqueline Eales: Religion in times of War and Republic, 1642-1660
- 7: Grant Tapsell: Religion and the Government of the Later Stuarts
- Part Two. Literary Genres for the Expression of Faith
- 8: Rachel Willie: Translation
- 9: Erica Longfellow: Prayer and Prophecy
- 10: Elizabeth Clarke and Simon Jackson: Lyric Poetry
- 11: Adrian Streete: Drama
- 12: Jeanne Shami: Sermons
- 13: Kate Hodgkin: Autobiographical Writings
- 14: Anne Lake Prescott: Satire and Polemic
- 15: Jan Bloemendal: Neo-Latin Writings and Religion
- Part Three. Religion and the Early Modern Writer
- 16: Andrew Hiscock: 'What England has to offer': Erasmus, Colet, More and their Circle
- 17: Mike Pincombe and Gavin Schwarz-Leeper: John Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Tragedies of Tyrants
- 18: Elizabeth Heale: Edmund Spenser
- 19: Lisa Hopkins: Christopher Marlowe and Religion
- 20: Nandra Perry and Robert E. Stillman: Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert: Piety and Poetry
- 21: Hugh Adlington: John Donne
- 22: Robert Wilche: Lucy Hutchinson
- 23: Catherine Gimelli Martin: John Milton
- Part Four. Interpretative Communities
- 24: Suzanne Trill: Lay Households
- 25: Nicky Hallett: Female Religious Houses
- 26: Johanna Harris: Sectarian Groups
- 27: Catie Gill: Quakers
- 28: Alison Searle: Exiles at Home
- 29: Jaime Goodrich: Exiles Abroad
- 30: Jeffrey Shoulson: The Jewish Diaspora
- 31: Bernadette Andrea: Islamic Communities
- 32: Christopher Hodgkins: Settlers in New Worlds
- Part Five. Early Modern Religious Life: Debates and Issues
- 33: Hannibal Hamlin: The Bible
- 34: Timothy Rosendale: Authority, Religion and the State
- 35: Bronwen Price: 'Finding the genuine light of nature': Religion and Science
- 36: Margaret J. M. Ezell: Body and Soul
- 37: Helen Wilcox: Sacred and Secular Love: 'I will lament, and love'
- 38: Peter Carlson: The Art and Craft of Dying
- 39: P.G. Stanwood: Sin, Judgment and Eternity
- Appendix
- Resources: A Beginner's Guide
- List of Abbreviations
About the author
Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. He has published widely on English and French early modern literature. He is a Trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association and a Fellow of the English Association. He is English literature editor of the journal MLR, series editor of The Yearbook of English Studies and series co-editor of Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. He is a former AHRC research fellow and is a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age and the Enlightenment at Montpellier 3 University. His most recent monograph is entitled Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature.
Helen Wilcox is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. She has published extensively on early modern English literature, particularly devotional poetry, women's writing, Shakespeare, early autobiography, and the relationships between literature and religion, music, and the visual arts. Her publications include Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (Routledge, 1989), the acclaimed annotated edition of The English Poems of George Herbert (Cambridge, 2007) and 1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). She has been a visiting professor in Singapore, Spain, and the USA., and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association, and the Learned Society of Wales.
Summary
This handbook scrutinises the links between English literature and religion, specifically in the early modern period; the interactions between the two fields are explored through an examination of the literary impact the British church had on published work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
