Title Moral identity in early modern English literature / Paul Cefalu

Published Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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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 Christian ethics in literature. English literature -- Protestant authors -- History and criticism Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century Protestantism and literature -- History -- 16th century Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century Identity (Psychology) in literature. Group identity in literature. Ethics in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Christian ethics in literature English literature -- Early modern English literature -- Protestant authors Ethics in literature Group identity in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Protestantism and literature Religion and literature Moraal. England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0511264909 9780511265624 051126562X 0511263333 9780511263330 0511264143 9780511264146 9780511264900 9780521838078 052183807X 1280749660 9781280749667 9780511483486 0511483481 9780521117234 0521117232

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