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The sacred and profane in English Renaissance literature

Title

The sacred and profane in English Renaissance literature / edited by Mary A. Papazian.

Publication

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2008]
©2008

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Additional Authors

Papazian, Mary Arshagouni, 1959-

Description

377 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This collection of thirteen original essays focuses squarely on the question of how properly to define the intersection between the sacred and profane in early modern English literature. Growing out of the work of church historians of the previous decade, and the renewed interest in our own time in questions of how the religious and secular realms overlap and (re)define each other, the contributors to this volume focus their attention on defining anew the tension between the sacred and profane in this period. Fundamental to this reframing is a strong belief among all contributors that the sacred and profane must be defined in relation to each other. Thus, the essays in this volume seek to advance more nuanced approaches to these issues that enable us to move beyond simplistic categories whereby the sacred and profane - and sacred and profane literature - occupied several different spheres, were produced by different writers, and spoke to different audiences."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-367) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Mary A. Papazian -- "The goodliest place in this world" : early Tudor reactions to papal Rome / Brett Foster -- "A comely presentation and the habit to admiration reverend" : ecclesiastical apparel on the early-modern English stage / Robert I. Lublin -- Plays of passion : pain, history, and theater in Edward II / Mathew Martin -- Poets, critics, and the redemption of poesy : Philip Sidney's Defense of poesy and metrical Psalms / Robert Kilgore -- Stealing or being stolen : a distinction between sacred and profane modes of transgressive desire in early-modern England / Sean McDowell -- John Donne's secular and sacred reactions to loss : from nothingness to God's tender jealousy / Mary A. Papazian -- Poetic re-creation in John Donne's "A litanie" / Hannibal Hamlin -- "Thy glorious household-stuffe" : doctrinal (re)inscription in George Herbert's church furnishings poems / David L. Orvis -- Hard hearts and scandal / Gregory Kneidel -- Silent signs : Fuller, David, and writing / Raymond-Jean Frontain -- "Intestine war" and "the smell of mortal change" : troping the digestive tract in Paradise lost / Kent R. Lehnhof -- Temple imagery and the sacred garden of Paradise lost / Chuck Keim -- Cringing before the Lord : Milton's Satan, Samuel Johnson, and the anxiety of worship / Andrew Barnaby.

ISBN

9780874130256
0874130255

LCCN

2007047692
9780874130256

OCLC

ocn181910154
181910154
SCSB-14536295

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library