| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 470 pages) : facs |
| Contents |
NOTE FOR THE READER; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; Prologue; Part One: Humanism and Theology in Northern Europe 1512-1527; Part Two: The English Language and the English Reformations 1521-1603; Part Three: Literature and the English Reformations 1580-1640; Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
Brian Cummings examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering how arguments about biblical meaning and literary interpretation influenced the new theology, and how developments in theology in turn influenced literary practices. Bringing together genres and styles of writing which are normally kept apart (poems, sermons, treatises, commentaries), he offers a major re-evaluation of the literary production of this intensely verbal and controversial period. - ;Brian Cummings examines the place of literature in the Reformation, considering both how arguments about biblical meaning |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Religious literature, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Religion in literature.
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Reformation in literature.
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Reformation -- England.
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Religion and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern.
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Reformation.
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Reformation in literature.
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Religion and literature.
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Religion in literature.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191518621 |
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019151862X |
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