The Oxford Handbook of Early Mode English Literature and Religion (Oxford Handbooks)

by: Andrew Hiscock (Editor),Helen Wilcox(Editor)

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Publication Date: 29 Jun. 2017

Language: English

Print Length: 850 pages

ISBN-10: 0199672806

ISBN-13: 9780199672806

Book Description

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early mode period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church – and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-mode interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith:lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early mode religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eteity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early mode English literature and religion.

About the Author

Review …impressive and wide-ranging ― Harriet Archer, The English Association[The Handbook’s] opening chronology of key events in political and religious history alongside those of the literary history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provides a helpful orientation for students in particular. ― David Parry, The Glassa work of considerable substance, offering its own richness and depth of thought at the same time that it insistently beckons readers into wider conversations. With thirty-nine essays, the volume fuishes students of the period with many possible points of entry, while the essays themselves present innumerable trajectories for further investigation. Lastly, in an appendix Jesse David Sharpe provides a primer on research methods that supplies useful guidance to those beginning such joueys. ― James Ross Macdonald, Mode Language Reviewoffers fresh interpretations of a host of topics springing from an incredibly fecund era of religious reflection in English literature, the 16th and 17th centuries … Of uniformly high quality, the essays are diverse in terms of methodology and approach. ― S. Gowler, CHOICEThe two editors, Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox, should be congratulated for having devised a strategy to explore and present the relevant issues that is as rigorous as it is effective. This book will be an indispensable reference for all good literature or religion libraries. ― Commentaire [translated from French]This is a distinguished volume … and a great deal of first class scholarship, and its editors are to be congratulated on their work in bringing it all together. A brief review can barely do it justice, and it deserves to be widely used and read. ― David Jasper, Joual of Anglican Studies
About the Author
Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. He has published widely on English and French early mode literature. He is a Trustee of the Mode Humanities Research Association and a Fellow of the English Association. He is English literature editor of the joual MLR, series editor of The Yearbook of English Studies and series co-editor of Arden Early Mode Drama Guides. He is a former AHRC research fellow and is a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age and the Enlightement at Montpellier 3 University. His most recent monograph is entitled Reading Memory in Early Mode Literature. Helen Wilcox is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. She has published extensively on early mode English literature, particularly devotional poetry, women’s writing, Shakespeare, early autobiography, and the relationships between literature and religion, music, and the visual arts. Her publications include Her Own Life:Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (Routledge, 1989), the acclaimed annotated edition of The English Poems of George Herbert (Cambridge, 2007) and 1611:Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Mode England (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). She has been a visiting professor in Singapore, Spain, and the USA., and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association, and the Leaed Society of Wales.

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