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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... say and do witchlike things must, in the absence of some counterindication, be taken as meaning, not “abstractions,” but witches. And the Elizabethan tendency to see human experience in relation to a power larger than itself was not a ...
... say that “the king's perogative stretcheth not to the doing of any wrong” was hard to preserve when almost every action of the king's was thought wrong by some group of his subjects. Many of the tensions of this period resulted from the ...
... say that we first humble ourselves then become one with God, as might a medieval mystic. The two “parts” are to be simultaneous and continuous, the tension is permanent. The ethical problem which is foregrounded in Reformation ...
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