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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... doctrine which is (for the most part) alien to us—I have drawn upon these primary sources in this book where appropriate, hoping to convey something of the manner in which Elizabethans and Jacobeans handled the issues (the editions from ...
... doctrine emerge as diverse, provocative and significant. This book is organized around aspects of those relationships. As the work proceeded it became apparent that its contextualising of literature is more radical than is customary ...
... doctrine, which seems to us so stern, unfamiliar, unsympathetic and problematic; shows the extent of its influence; elaborates its implications; and tries to explain why it made sense at the time. Three fundamental questions about ...
... doctrine are often obscured in critical studies written within the dominant cultural tradition because that tradition holds that literature expresses enduring human values; moreover, that such is its rationale and the criterion by which ...
... 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 by ...
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