1st Edition

Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature

Edited By David Coleman Copyright 2013
    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    210 Pages
    by Routledge

    Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature brings together leading scholars of early modern literature and culture to explicate the ways in which both regional and religious contexts inform the production, circulation and interpretation of Renaissance literary texts. Examining texts by a wide variety of early modern writers - including Edmund Spenser, Lodowick Lloyd, Richard Nugent, Thomas Middleton and John Webster, Richard Montagu, and John Milton - the contributors to this volume enhance our understanding of the complex cultural contexts of early modern Anglophone writing.

    Chapter 1 Introduction, DavidColeman; Chapter 2 Protestant Propaganda and Regional Paranoia, PaulFrazer; Chapter 3 ‘Not Professed Therein’, David J.Baker; Chapter 4 The ‘Bardi Brytannorum’, StephenHamrick; Chapter 5 Richard Nugent’s Cynthia (1604), DeirdreSerjeantson; Chapter 6 Purchasing Purgatory, DavidColeman; Chapter 7 ‘ Arminian is like a flying fish’, AdrianStreete; Chapter 8 The Aston-Thimelby Circle at Home and Abroad, HelenHackett; Chapter 9 ‘Is this the Region … That we must change for Heav’n?’, Willy MaleyAdam Swann; Chapter 10 Reading Conversion Narratives as Literature of Trauma, NaomiMcAreavey;

    Biography

    David Coleman is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

    'Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature is ... a valuable guide to a new critical terrain and helps pioneer approaches for others to follow.' Renaissance Quarterly '... a rich and varied text on the early modern Archipelago that readswell with a very efficient combination of critical perspectives.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... such multiplicity, and the level of insight provided into particular literary texts, suggests the editor David Coleman has identified a significant and stimulating field of research.' Review of English Studies