- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) : illustrations.
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Becoming Christian (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Becoming Christian (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013048884
- OCLC
- ssj0001135875
- Author
Britton, Dennis Austin.
- Title
Becoming Christian [electronic resource] : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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