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Published: 23rd November 2006This book examines the relationship between literature and religious conflict in seventeenth-century England, showing how literary texts grew out of and addressed the contemporary controversy over ceremonial worship. Examining the meaning and function of religion in seventeenth-century England, Achsah Guibbory shows that the conflicts over religious ceremony that were central to the English Revolution had broad cultural significance. She offers new and original readings of Herbert, Herrick, Browne and Milton in this context.
'... painstaking research into religious controversy.' Times Literary Supplement
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Reading the conflicts: ceremony, ideology and the meaning of religion | |
| Devotion in The Temple and the art of contradiction | |
| Religious experience in the 'Temple' of Hesperides | |
| The promiscuous embrace of ritual order | |
| Carnal idolatry and the reconfiguration of worship, part I, 1634-1660 | |
| Carnal idolatry and the reconfiguration of worship, part II, after the Restoration: the major poems | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521593557
ISBN-10: 0521593557
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 292
Published: 13th February 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2
x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.6
