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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... individuals with whom he disputes , banters , ponders , drinks , and converts . On the journey to this book , I have had the good fortune to share the company of many who have guided my steps , prompted me to question , pointed me in ...
... individuals with whom he disputes , banters , ponders , drinks , and converts . On the journey to this book , I have had the good fortune to share the company of many who have guided my steps , prompted me to question , pointed me in ...
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... individuals and ideologies . By contrast , the aim of many early modern authors was to express a profound sense of shapelessness , to convey the chaos of transforming and disintegrating communal categories , to paint a muddled world ...
... individuals and ideologies . By contrast , the aim of many early modern authors was to express a profound sense of shapelessness , to convey the chaos of transforming and disintegrating communal categories , to paint a muddled world ...
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... individuals , the larger ecclesiastical corpus ideally presented a model of integration , as the many bodies merge into one . This vision of corporate perfection was corrupted by sectarians , who , in the eyes of orthodox authors ...
... individuals , the larger ecclesiastical corpus ideally presented a model of integration , as the many bodies merge into one . This vision of corporate perfection was corrupted by sectarians , who , in the eyes of orthodox authors ...
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... individual sectarians : the puritan body itself became a site of deformation . George Spinola observes , " I have not found such strange , exotick , forrain , ridiculous deformities , and non - conformi- ties of parts in the Faces and ...
... individual sectarians : the puritan body itself became a site of deformation . George Spinola observes , " I have not found such strange , exotick , forrain , ridiculous deformities , and non - conformi- ties of parts in the Faces and ...
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... individual to the community ; the grounds for political authority ; the autonomy of the individual conscience ; the right to participate in public discourse ; and the right to determine one's own religious society . The social and ...
... individual to the community ; the grounds for political authority ; the autonomy of the individual conscience ; the right to participate in public discourse ; and the right to determine one's own religious society . The social and ...
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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