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Love's quarrels : reading charity in early modern England
- Title
- Love's quarrels : reading charity in early modern England / Evan A. Gurney.
- Author
- Gurney, Evan A.
- Publication
- Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Additional Authors
- University of Massachusetts Press, publisher.
- Description
- x, 296 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Early modern English writers often complained that 'charity had grown cold, ' lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated heated debates, animated by social, political, and religious changes that prompted urgent questions about the virtue's powers and functions. Charity was as much a problem as it was a solution, a sure sign of trouble even when invoked on behalf of peace and community. Love's Quarrels charts charity's complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in biblical translations of the early sixteenth century, in Elizabethan polemic and satire, and in the political and religious controversies arriving at the outset of civil war. As key works from Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton reveal, "reading charity" was fraught with difficulty as early modern England reconsidered its deepest held convictions in the face of mounting social disruption and spiritual pressure"--
- Series Statement
- Massachusetts studies in early modern culture
- Uniform Title
- Massachusetts studies in early modern culture.
- Alternative Title
- Reading charity in early modern England
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-285) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Charitable signs and tokens -- Charitable translation : Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the Vagrant text -- Charitable admonition : moral reform in Elizabethan polemic and satire -- Charitable allegory : figures of love in Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Charitable use : Ben Jonson, city comedy, and commercial charity -- Charitable singularity : negotiations of liberty in Civil War England -- Conclusion : "Not a single charity."
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2147
- ISBN
- 9781625343819
- 1625343817
- 9781625343802
- 1625343809
- LCCN
- 2018019146
- 40028677964
- OCLC
- 1032353460
- Author
- Gurney, Evan A., author.
- Title
- Love's quarrels : reading charity in early modern England / Evan A. Gurney.
- Publisher
- Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Massachusetts studies in early modern cultureMassachusetts studies in early modern culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-285) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1700
- Added Author
- University of Massachusetts Press, publisher.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Gurney, Evan A. Love's quarrels. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018] 9781613766286 (DLC) 2018047109
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028677964
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2147