Feminine Engendered Faith

Feminine Engendered Faith
Title Feminine Engendered Faith PDF eBook
Author M. Sabine
Publisher Springer
Pages 317
Release 2015-12-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230372589

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This book proposes the poetic link between Donne and Crashaw during the English Reformation. In the first half of this work, Donne's Songs and Sonets, Verse Letters, religious works and Anniversaries are discussed as they reflect increasingly covert reverence for a holy mother figure. In the second half, Crashaw's juvenile poems and epigrams, verse in honour of the Virgin and Child, and mature contemplative verse are seen to express mystical homage to Mary and growing admiration for feminine powers of faith.

EnGendered

EnGendered
Title EnGendered PDF eBook
Author Sam A. Andreades
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Homosexuality
ISBN 9781941337110

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"A systematic biblical theology of gender that affirms gender equality without minimizing the asymmetry of gender distinction based in the image of the triune God. Consequently, intergendered relationships, celebrating distinction across the genders, foster greater intimacy than monogendered (same-sex) or egalitarian ones"--

Religion and Culture in Renaissance England

Religion and Culture in Renaissance England
Title Religion and Culture in Renaissance England PDF eBook
Author Claire McEachern
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 316
Release 1997-06-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521584258

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These essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and literary forms, and their reciprocal role in shaping early modern religion, from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Reflecting and rethinking the insights of new historicism and cultural studies, individual essays take up various aspects of the productive, if tense, relation between Tudor-Stuart Christianity and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature: the vernacular Bible, Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Hooker's Laws, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the poems of John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and John Milton. The collection demonstrates the centrality of religion to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and its influence on early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity and nationhood.

Refiguring the Sacred Feminine

Refiguring the Sacred Feminine
Title Refiguring the Sacred Feminine PDF eBook
Author Theresa M. DiPasquale
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 406
Release 2008-04-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0820705195

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Theresa M. DiPasquale’s study of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton demonstrates how each of these seventeenth century English poets revised, reformed, and renewed the Judeo-Christian tradition of the sacred feminine. The central figures of this tradition—divine Wisdom, created Wisdom, the Bride, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Ecclesia—are essential to the works of Donne, Lanyer, and Milton. All three poets are deeply invested in the ancient, scripturally authorized belief that the relationship between God and humankind is gendered: God is father, bridegroom, king; the human soul and the church as corporate entity are daughter, bride, and consort. This important text not only casts new light on these poets and on the history of Christian doctrine and belief, but also makes enormous contributions to our understanding of the feminine more broadly. It will be of interest to scholars who study the Literary Studies, religion, and culture of early modern England, to feminist theologians, and to any reader grappling seriously with gender issues in Christian theology and spirituality.

The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature

The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature
Title The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature PDF eBook
Author Molly Murray
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 219
Release 2009-10-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139481797

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Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms of worship, many would cross - and often recross - the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This study considers the poetry written by such converts, from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of James II, concentrating on four figures: John Donne, William Alabaster, Richard Crashaw, and John Dryden. Murray offers a context for each poet's conversion within the era's polemical and controversial literature. She also elaborates on the formal features of the poems themselves, demonstrating how the language of poetry could express both spiritual and ecclesiastical change with particular vividness and power. Proposing conversion as a catalyst for some of the most innovative devotional poetry of the period, both canonical and uncanonical, this study will be of interest to all specialists in early modern English literature.

John Donne's Articulations of the Feminine

John Donne's Articulations of the Feminine
Title John Donne's Articulations of the Feminine PDF eBook
Author H. L. Meakin
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 296
Release 1998
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780198184553

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This book is a historical and theoretical study of some of John Donne's less frequently discussed poetry and prose; it interrogates various trends that have dominated Donne criticism, such as the widely divergent views about his attitudes towards women, the focus on the Songs and Sonets to the exclusion of his other works, and the tendency to separate discussions of his poetry and prose. On a broader scale, it joins a small but growing number of feminist re-readings of Donne's works. Using the cultural criticism of French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray, Meakin explores works throughout Donne's career, from his earliest verse letters to sermons preached while Divinity Reader at Lincoln's Inn and Dean of St. Paul's in London.

Forms of faith

Forms of faith
Title Forms of faith PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Baldo
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 351
Release 2017-06-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1526107171

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This book explores the role of literature as a means of mediating religious conflict in early modern England. Marking a new stage in the ‘religious turn’ that generated vigorous discussion of the changes and conflicts brought about by the Reformation, it unites new historicist readings with an interest in the ideological significance of aesthetic form. It proceeds from the assumption that confessional differences did not always erupt into hostilities but that people also had to arrange themselves with divided loyalties – between the old faith and the new, between religious and secular interests, between officially sanctioned and privately held beliefs. What role might literature have played here? Can we conceive of literary representations as possible sites of de-escalation? Do different discursive, aesthetic, or social contexts inflect or deflect the demands of religious loyalties? Such questions open a new perspective on post-Reformation English culture and literature.