| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 282 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: spirit and circumstance in Caroline Protestantism -- 1. The church heroic: Charles, Laud, and Little Gidding -- 2. Great Tew and the skeptical hero -- 3. Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful -- 4. Respecting persons -- 5. Decorum and redemption in the theater of the person -- 6. Nature (I): post-Baconian mysteries -- 7. Nature (II): church and cosmos -- Conclusion: Rome, Massachusetts, and the Caroline Protestant imagination |
| Summary |
"Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625-1649). In the decades leading to the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of heroic endeavors, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. Barbour examines sermons and theological treatises to argue that Caroline religious culture comprised a rich and extensive stocktaking of the conditions in which Protestantism was celebrated, undercut, and experienced. Barbour argues that this stocktaking was also carried out in unusual and sometimes quite secular contexts: in the masques, plays, and poetry of the era as well as in scientific works and diaries. This broad-ranging study offers an extensive reappraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Christianity and literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Intellectual life
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Protestantism and literature
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Religion and literature
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Protestantismus
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Literatur
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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Godsdienst.
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Protestantisme.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056791
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England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302
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England -- Church history -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268
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England
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Great Britain
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Church history
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511019043 |
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0511019041 |
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9780511116407 |
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0511116403 |
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9780511483448 |
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0511483449 |
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9780511052569 |
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0511052561 |
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