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Becoming Christian race, reformation, and early modern English romance

Title
Becoming Christian [electronic resource] : 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
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
  • 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.
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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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