Conscience in early modern English literature
"Conscience in Early Modern English Literature describes how poetry, theology, and politics intersect in the early modern conscience. In the wake of the Reformation, theologians attempt to understand how the faculty works, poets attempt to capture the experience of being in its grip, and revolu...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York Port Melbourne, VIC Delhi Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Literature
/ Conscience (Motif)
/ History 1500-1700
B Early Modern English / Literature / Conscience (Motif) / History 1500-1700 B England / Conscience / Poetry / Philosophy / Theology / History 1500-1700 |
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Ethics in literature
B Literature and society (England) History 17th century B Conscience in literature B Literature and society (England) History 16th century B Philosophy in literature B English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism |
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| Summary: | "Conscience in Early Modern English Literature describes how poetry, theology, and politics intersect in the early modern conscience. In the wake of the Reformation, theologians attempt to understand how the faculty works, poets attempt to capture the experience of being in its grip, and revolutionaries attempt to assert its authority for political action. The result, Abraham Stoll argues, is a dynamic scene of conscience in England, thick with the energies of salvation and subjectivity, and influential in the public sphere of Civil War politics. Stoll explores how Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, and Milton stage the inward experience of conscience. He links these poetic scenes to Luther, Calvin, and English Reformation theology. He also demonstrates how they shape the public discourses of conscience in such places as the toleration debates, among Levellers, and in the prose of Hobbes and Milton. In the literature of the early modern conscience, Protestant subjectivity evolves toward the political subject of modern liberalism"-- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: thus conscience; 1. Destructuring: Aquinas, Luther, Perkins; 2. Spenser's allegorical conscience; 3. Con-science in Macbeth; 4. Casuistry and antinomianism; 5. Public discourses: toleration, revolution, sovereignty; 6. Milton's expansive conscience; Bibliography; Index |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-214 |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 216 Seiten, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1108418732 |