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Possession, Puritanism and Print Marion Gibson

Possession, Puritanism and Print By Marion Gibson

Possession, Puritanism and Print by Marion Gibson


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Summary

Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war.

Possession, Puritanism and Print Summary

Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy by Marion Gibson

Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war.

Possession, Puritanism and Print Reviews

'A fresh and persuasive reading of the culture of English Protestantism' Journal of the Printing History Society

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 A Literary Geography of Exorcism: Farre from the Eye of Justice; Chapter 2 A Booke Declaring the Fearfull Vexation: Spreading the Word; Chapter 3 Sinnful, Shamfull, Lying and Ridiculous: The Possession of William Sommers; Chapter 4 Pare Thy Nails, Dad: Authority and Subversion in Possession Narratives; Chapter 5 Dialogicall Discourses and Summarie Answeres; Chapter 6 The Madman in the Wilderness;

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NPB9781851968329
9781851968329
1851968326
Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy by Marion Gibson
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2006-11-01
218
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