Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton
Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England
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ISBN-13:
9780521025447
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.02.2006
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Kristen Poole
Gewicht:
471 g
Format:
229x152x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The image of the puritan as a dour and repressive character has been central to ways of reading sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history and literature. Kristen Poole's original study challenges this perception arguing that radical reformers were most often portrayed in literature of the period as deviant, licentious and transgressive. Through extensive analysis of early modern pamphlets, sermons, poetry and plays, the fictional puritan emerges as a grotesque and carnivalesque figure. By recovering this lost satirical image, Poole sheds new light on the social role played by anti-puritan rhetoric.
Acknowledgements; Introduction: deforming Reformation; 1. The Puritan in the alehouse: Falstaff and the drama of Martin Marprelate; 2. Eating disorder: feasting, fasting, and the Puritan bellygod at Bartholemew Fair; 3. Lewd conversations: the perversions of the Family of Love; 4. Dissecting sectarianism: swarms, form, and Thomas Edwards's Gangrœna; 5. The descent of dissent: monstrous genealogies and Milton's antiprelatical tracts; 6. Not so much as fig leaves: Adamites, naked Quakers, linguistic perfections and Paradise Lost; Epilogue: the fortunes of Hudibras; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
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