Prayer, Despair, and Drama: ELIZABETHAN INTROSPECTION (Studies in Angelican History) - Hardcover

Kaufman, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025202222X ISBN 13: 9780252022227

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1996

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Book by Kaufman Peter

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"Scholars of the English Renaissance will profit from this book by a historian of religion... But for the literary scholar the value of the book lies in the insights Kaufman provides into the religious culture of the late sixteenth century... By offering a glimpse of what Kaufman convincingly argues is a sizable swath of cultural consciousness, this study ought to help us rethink the interpretation of religion and literary discourse in early modern Europe." -- Richard Mallette, Journal of English and Germanic Philology

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Prayer, Despair, and Drama explores the godly sorrow of Elizabethan Calvinists and finds that what some have characterized as an evangelism of fear functioned more as a kind of religious therapy.
In this major contribution to discussions of the relationship between religion and literature in Elizabethan England, Peter Iver Kaufman argues that the soul-searching and self-scourging typical of late Tudor Calvinism was reflected in the rhetoric of self-loathing then prevalent in sermons, sonnets, and soliloquys. Kaufman shows how this spiritual psychology informs major literary texts including Hamlet, The Faerie Queene, Donne's Holy Sonnets, and other works.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 025202222X
• ISBN 13: 9780252022227
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184