Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 (Routledge Revivals)Routledge, 15 juil. 2009 - 172 pages The hardline, uncompromising theology preached by the English Church in the 16th and 17th Centuries had disturbing effects on the literature of the period. This study, originally published in 1983, assesses the importance of the prevailing religious climate to the work of several major writers, both in and out of sympathy with the contemporary protestantism. It is argued that the accepted view of the period as essentially 'Christian-Humanist' obscures the harsher aspects of a Calvinism which throws into relief the agonies of a writer like Donne, the acceptances of one like George Herbert. Many writers rejected more or less explicitly the Christian dogma, through the heroic assertion of human potential in Shakespearean and other dramatic characters, the nihilism of Marlowe, or the secular rationalism of Bacon and Hobbes. Milton is central to this complex weft of belief and rejection, piety and atheism, acceptance of predestination and determination to accept fate, that characterises the period. Finally, Sinfield shows how this protestantism disintegrated under the strain of internal contradictions and external pressures, and in the process helped to stimulate secularism. In this original and clearly written book, scholarship is deployed unobstrusively to place many major works in an unaccustomed and stimulating perspective. |
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... contemporary Protestantism. It is argued that the accepted view of the period as essentially 'ChristianHumanist' obscures the harsher aspects of a Calvinism which throws into relief the agonies of a writer like Donne, the acceptances of ...
... contemporary doctrine does not mean that everyone is supposed to have held Calvinist beliefs. We do not have much idea in principle of what it means “to hold a belief,” and we know that thought and behaviour are in practice crisscrossed ...
... in it, constitutes an invitation to agree that the world is, importantly, thus. So it effects a commentary upon, and hence an intervention in, contemporary attitudes. This book traces the interactions of literature with protestant ...
... (Hutchinson and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1976), p.12; the final phrase is quoted from E.P. Thompson, “The Peculiarities of the English.” 2 Protestantism: a belief of contradictories That which taketh away.
... contemporary religion. Protestants sought to establish for all the faithful an intense and personal relationship between the individual and God. They were not content that religion should consist of casual or external observance. Hence ...
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