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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... literary usage the term most often signified social elements that resisted categorization . In a culture loudly proclaiming the need for religious uniformity , " puritans " were the mutable , the indeterminable , the unlocatable ; they ...
... literary usage the term most often signified social elements that resisted categorization . In a culture loudly proclaiming the need for religious uniformity , " puritans " were the mutable , the indeterminable , the unlocatable ; they ...
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... literary anatomies of the puritan body.21 The pamphlet from which I have taken my epigraph , The Puritanes Impuritie : or the Anatomie of a Puritane or Separatist , indicates the tenor of these tracts ; when puritans were not being ...
... literary anatomies of the puritan body.21 The pamphlet from which I have taken my epigraph , The Puritanes Impuritie : or the Anatomie of a Puritane or Separatist , indicates the tenor of these tracts ; when puritans were not being ...
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... literary portrayals , sectarian communities are " hot , private , lusty , and promiscuous meetings , " 23 where the " time was spent in drunkenness , uncleanness , blasphemous words , filthy songs , and mixt dances of men and women ...
... literary portrayals , sectarian communities are " hot , private , lusty , and promiscuous meetings , " 23 where the " time was spent in drunkenness , uncleanness , blasphemous words , filthy songs , and mixt dances of men and women ...
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... literary accounts of the period . " Puritan " ( and its more common adjectival form " puritanical " ) has been posited as the antithesis to that which is generally valued by literary critics : puritan v . wit , puritan v . theatre ...
... literary accounts of the period . " Puritan " ( and its more common adjectival form " puritanical " ) has been posited as the antithesis to that which is generally valued by literary critics : puritan v . wit , puritan v . theatre ...
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... literary anachronism . If modern and postmodern critics have tended to emphasize the puritans ' retention at the expense of their indulgence , early modern authors were most likely to highlight quite the reverse ; if contemporary ...
... literary anachronism . If modern and postmodern critics have tended to emphasize the puritans ' retention at the expense of their indulgence , early modern authors were most likely to highlight quite the reverse ; if contemporary ...
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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