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Theology and agency in early modern literature
- Title
- Theology and agency in early modern literature / Timothy Rosendale, Southern Methodist University, Texas.
- Author
- Rosendale, Timothy
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- ix, 282 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "What can I do? To what degree do we control our own desires, actions, and fate - or not? These questions haunt us, and have done so, in various forms, for thousands of years. Timothy Rosendale explores the problem of human will and action relative to the Divine - which Luther himself identified as the central issue of the Reformation - and its manifestations in English literary texts from 1580-1670. After an introduction which outlines the broader issues from Sophocles and the Stoics to twentieth-century philosophy, the opening chapter traces the theological history of the agency problem from the New Testament to the seventeenth century. The following chapters address particular aspects of volition and salvation (will, action, struggle, and blame) in the writings of Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Ford, Herbert, Donne, and Milton, who tackle these problems with an urgency and depth that resonate with parallel concerns today."-- Back cover of book jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index.
- Contents
- A history of Christian agency -- Will : Marlowe -- Action : revenge tragedy -- Struggle : Donne -- Blame : Milton -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-7749
- ISBN
- 1108418848
- 9781108418843
- OCLC
- 1009182419
- Author
- Rosendale, Timothy, author.
- Title
- Theology and agency in early modern literature / Timothy Rosendale, Southern Methodist University, Texas.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1700
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-7749