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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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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
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