Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
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'Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England has an exhilaratingly wide range of reference, and, in its quest to demonstrate that Church of England orthodoxy was far from uniform, goes in for some startling contrasts.' Times Literary Supplement
'Reid Barbour offers a wide-ranging study ... Barbour presents a rich array of materials and a new angle on many texts ...' Literature & History
Book Description
Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625 1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, in terms of heroic endeavors, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. This broad ranging study offers an extensive reappraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.
Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England,Reid Barbour,Cambridge University Press,0521006643,17th century,Christianity and literature,Early modern, 1500-1700,England,English literature,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Europe - Great Britain - General,History,History and criticism,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Modern - 17th Century,Religion and literature,British Isles,English,English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism,History of religion,Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European,Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries
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