Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern EnglandThe 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. |
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... sermons , poetry , and plays , the fictional puritan emerges as a grotesque and carnival- esque figure ; puritans are extensively depicted as gluttonous , sexually promiscuous , monstrously procreating , and even as worshipping naked ...
... sermons , poetry , and plays , the fictional puritan emerges as a grotesque and carnival- esque figure ; puritans are extensively depicted as gluttonous , sexually promiscuous , monstrously procreating , and even as worshipping naked ...
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... Quakers , linguistic perfection and Paradise Lost 147 Epilogue : the fortunes of Hudibras Notes Selected bibliography of pamphlets and sermons Index 182 187 241 258 Illustrations 1 Title page of John Taylor , A Swarme vii.
... Quakers , linguistic perfection and Paradise Lost 147 Epilogue : the fortunes of Hudibras Notes Selected bibliography of pamphlets and sermons Index 182 187 241 258 Illustrations 1 Title page of John Taylor , A Swarme vii.
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... Sermon ( 1641 ) . Courtesy of the Rare Books and Special Collections Library , University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign . 134 152 9 Title page of Thomas Bray , A new Sect of Religion Descryed , called ADAMITES ( 1641 ) . By ...
... Sermon ( 1641 ) . Courtesy of the Rare Books and Special Collections Library , University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign . 134 152 9 Title page of Thomas Bray , A new Sect of Religion Descryed , called ADAMITES ( 1641 ) . By ...
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... sermons , I have also standardized fonts and capitalization . For sixteenth- and seventeenth - century texts , the place of publication is London unless otherwise noted . Introduction : deforming Reformation In these preposterous times ...
... sermons , I have also standardized fonts and capitalization . For sixteenth- and seventeenth - century texts , the place of publication is London unless otherwise noted . Introduction : deforming Reformation In these preposterous times ...
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... sermon entitled Gods Fury , Englands Fire . Or A Plaine Discovery of those Spirituall Incendiaries , which have set Church and State on Fire . With rhetorical zest , Benbrigge vents his anguish over what he perceives as the dissolution ...
... sermon entitled Gods Fury , Englands Fire . Or A Plaine Discovery of those Spirituall Incendiaries , which have set Church and State on Fire . With rhetorical zest , Benbrigge vents his anguish over what he perceives as the dissolution ...
Contents
The puritan in the alehouse Falstaff and the drama of Martin Marprelate | 16 |
Eating disorder feasting fasting and the puritan bellygod at Bartholomew Fair | 45 |
Lewd conversations the perversions of the Family of Love | 74 |
Dissecting sectarianism swarms forms and Thomas Edwardss Gangrena | 104 |
The descent of dissent monstrous genealogies and Miltons antiprelatical tracts | 124 |
Not so much as jig leaves Adamites naked Quakers linguistic perfection and Paradise Lost | 147 |
the fortunes of Hudibras | 182 |
Notes | 187 |
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