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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales)

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion By Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales)

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion by Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales)

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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.

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion by Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales)

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion Reviews

Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox have organized and edited a volume indispensable for all future research in early modern English cultural and historical perspectives on religious and literary studies. * William E. Engel, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 37383 USA, Religious Studies Review *
...impressive and wide-ranging * Harriet Archer, The English Association *
[The Handbook's] opening chronology of key events in political and religious history alongside those of the literary history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provides a helpful orientation for students in particular. * David Parry, The Glass *
A work of considerable substance, offering its own richness and depth of thought at the same time that it insistently beckons readers into wider conversations. With thirty-nine essays, the volume furnishes students of the period with many possible points of entry, while the essays themselves present innumerable trajectories for further investigation. Lastly, in an appendix Jesse David Sharpe provides a primer on research methods that supplies useful guidance to those beginning such journeys. * James Ross Macdonald, Modern Language Review *
Offers fresh interpretations of a host of topics springing from an incredibly fecund era of religious reflection in English literature, the 16th and 17th centuries . . . Of uniformly high quality, the essays are diverse in terms of methodology and approach. * S. Gowler, CHOICE *
The two editors, Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox, should be congratulated for having devised a strategy to explore and present the relevant issues that is as rigorous as it is effective. This book will be an indispensable reference for all good literature or religion libraries. * Commentaire [translated from French] *
This is a distinguished volume . . . and a great deal of first class scholarship, and its editors are to be congratulated on their work in bringing it all together. A brief review can barely do it justice, and it deserves to be widely used and read. * David Jasper, Journal of Anglican Studies *

About Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales)

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.

Table 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 Jesse David Sharpe: Resources: A Beginner's Guide List of Abbreviations

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion by Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales)
Andrew Hiscock (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales)
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