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Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance
- Title
- Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton.
- Author
- Britton, Dennis Austin.
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 259 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Examines early modern English literary representations of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity alongside English translations of Calvin's writings, polemical writings, treaties on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons. Demonstrates that the development of a theology of race in post-Reformation England helped resolved doctrinal controversies about baptism"--
- Subject
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Religion and literature > England > History > 16th century
- Religion and literature > England > History > 17th century
- Conversion in literature
- Christians in literature
- Jews in literature
- Muslims in literature
- Race in literature
- Conversion > Christianity > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Not Turning the Ethiope White -- 1. "The Baptiz'd Race" -- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington's Orlando Furioso -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-'turning' Othello and the Location of Christian Identity -- 5. Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage -- Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-1235
- ISBN
- 9780823257140 (hardback)
- 0823257142 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013048884
- OCLC
- 870335343
- Author
- Britton, Dennis Austin.
- Title
- Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton.
- Publisher
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-1235