Description |
1 online resource (x, 225 pages) |
Contents |
Shame, guilt, and moral character in early modern English protestant theology and Sir Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia -- The three orders of nature, grace, and law in Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene, book II -- Conformist and puritan moral theory : from Richard Hooker's natural law theory to Richard Sibbes's ethical occasionalism -- The elect body in pain : Godly fear and sanctification in John Donne's poetry and prose -- Absent neighbors in George Herbert's "the church," or why agape becomes caritas in English Protestant devotional poetry -- Moral pragmatism in the theology of John Milton and his contemporaries |
Summary |
Paul Cefalu's study explores the relationship between ethical character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, as well as in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Conformist and Puritan sermons, theological tracts, and philosophical treatises |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Christian ethics in literature.
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English literature -- Protestant authors -- History and criticism
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Protestantism and literature -- History -- 16th century
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Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Group identity in literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Christian ethics in literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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English literature -- Protestant authors
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Ethics in literature
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Group identity in literature
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Protestantism and literature
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Religion and literature
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Moraal.
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England
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0511264909 |
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9780511265624 |
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051126562X |
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0511263333 |
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9780511263330 |
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0511264143 |
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9780511264146 |
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9780511264900 |
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9780521838078 |
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052183807X |
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1280749660 |
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9781280749667 |
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9780511483486 |
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0511483481 |
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9780521117234 |
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0521117232 |
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