Religious diversity and early modern English texts : Catholic, Judaic, feminist, and secular dimensions / edited by Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt.
In Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions, editors Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt present thirteen essays that examine the complex religious culture of early modern England. Emphasizing particularly the marginalized discourses...
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Detroit :
Wayne State University,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Aruthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt
- Part I. Minority Catholic culture
- Marian verse as politically oppositional poetry in Elizabethan England / Arthur F. Marotti
- Religious identity and the English landscape : William Blundell and the Halkirk coins / Phebe Jensen
- Remembering Lot's wife : the structure of testimony in the Painted life of Mary Ward / Lowell Gallagher
- Part II. Figuring the Jew
- Early mimics : Shylock, Machiavelli, and the commodification of nationhood / Avraham Oz
- Milton, prophet of Israel / Achsah Guibbory
- Part III. Hebraism and the Bible
- Performance and Parshanut : The historie of Jacob and Esau / Chanita Goodblatt
- Exploiting King Saul in early modern England : good uses for a bad king / Anne Lake Prescott
- Prophetic voices : Joachim de Fiore, Moses Maimonides, Philip Sidney, Mary Herbert, and the Psalms / Elliott M. Simon
- Biblical and rabbinic intertextuality in George Herbert's "The collar" and "The pearl" / Noam Flinker
- Part IV. Women and religion
- "This pretious passeover feed upon" : poetic eucharist and feminine vision in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex Judaeorum / Yaakov Mascetti
- Reading funeral sermons for early modern English women : some literary and historiographical challenges / Jeanne Shami
- Part V. Religion and secularlization
- Framing religion : Marlovian policy and the pluralism of art / Noam Reisner
- Shakespeare's secular benediction : the language of tragic community in King Lear / Sanford Budick
- Contributors
- Index.