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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... Society in Early Modern England , " directed by David Cressy and Lori Anne Ferrell . A Folger Institute seminar , “ Tudor Historiography , " led by David Kastan , was also inspiring ; David continually challenges my ideas and makes them ...
... Society in Early Modern England , " directed by David Cressy and Lori Anne Ferrell . A Folger Institute seminar , “ Tudor Historiography , " led by David Kastan , was also inspiring ; David continually challenges my ideas and makes them ...
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... society , and hurls accusations at the religious sectarians whom he considers to be the source of this disruption : " Such was their hypocrisie in all they did ... [ that ] their Reformation was but a greater Deformation , and that ...
... society , and hurls accusations at the religious sectarians whom he considers to be the source of this disruption : " Such was their hypocrisie in all they did ... [ that ] their Reformation was but a greater Deformation , and that ...
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... society . While postmodern theories of language have destabilized many conceptual and linguistic relations which were once thought to be the most fundamental ( male / female , for example ) , in critical discourse " puritan " often ...
... society . While postmodern theories of language have destabilized many conceptual and linguistic relations which were once thought to be the most fundamental ( male / female , for example ) , in critical discourse " puritan " often ...
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... society . The social and ecclesiastical issues raised by religious separation were frequently linked to issues of speech : coterminous ecclesiastical and social boundaries were largely demarcated through discursive means . Within the ...
... society . The social and ecclesiastical issues raised by religious separation were frequently linked to issues of speech : coterminous ecclesiastical and social boundaries were largely demarcated through discursive means . Within the ...
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... society even as he gorges on the communal pig , Busy dramatizes the dynamics of religious semi - separatism and the politics of unlicensed preaching . Chapter 3 focuses on accounts of the notorious sect the Family of Love , and the ways ...
... society even as he gorges on the communal pig , Busy dramatizes the dynamics of religious semi - separatism and the politics of unlicensed preaching . Chapter 3 focuses on accounts of the notorious sect the Family of Love , and the ways ...
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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