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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... claims . Jennifer Carrell sustained me throughout with her imaginative readings , her sane perspective , and , most importantly , her friendship . I spent a year researching this project in Oxford under the supervision of Nigel Smith ...
... claims . Jennifer Carrell sustained me throughout with her imaginative readings , her sane perspective , and , most importantly , her friendship . I spent a year researching this project in Oxford under the supervision of Nigel Smith ...
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... mystical Family of Love practiced outward conformity while secretly belonging to their own alternative spiritual - - new community ; semi - separatist Baptists claimed a dual loyalty 2 Radical religion from Shakespeare to Milton.
... mystical Family of Love practiced outward conformity while secretly belonging to their own alternative spiritual - - new community ; semi - separatist Baptists claimed a dual loyalty 2 Radical religion from Shakespeare to Milton.
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... claimed a dual loyalty to their parochial church and to their own private , voluntary congregations . Conceptions of religious community became numerous and complex , contradictory and fluid . This multiplication and confusion of ...
... claimed a dual loyalty to their parochial church and to their own private , voluntary congregations . Conceptions of religious community became numerous and complex , contradictory and fluid . This multiplication and confusion of ...
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... claims of spiritual individualism , and the dissolution of proper hierarchical order , lead to a body of Christ whose trunk is covered with organs and extremities : as in the body the most usefull members thereof , the eyes , the ears ...
... claims of spiritual individualism , and the dissolution of proper hierarchical order , lead to a body of Christ whose trunk is covered with organs and extremities : as in the body the most usefull members thereof , the eyes , the ears ...
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... claims to liberty of conscience , and examines how Thomas Edwards , one of the most vocal opponents of sectarianism , attempts to restore social order through rhetorical means in his Gangræna . The subsequent chapter concentrates on ...
... claims to liberty of conscience , and examines how Thomas Edwards , one of the most vocal opponents of sectarianism , attempts to restore social order through rhetorical means in his Gangræna . The subsequent chapter concentrates on ...
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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