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John Donne and conformity in crisis in the late Jacobean pulpit

Author: Jeanne Shami
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 2003.
Series: Studies in Renaissance literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), v. 13.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period; while they are in no way "typical" of any particular preaching agenda or style, they articulate these crises in their most complex forms  Read more...
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Named Person: John Donne; John Donne; John Donne; John Donne; John Donne
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jeanne Shami
ISBN: 0859917894 9780859917896
OCLC Number: 51868201
Description: viii, 318 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: "discreet or religious preachers"" John Donne and the late Jacobean Public sphere --
"the indiscretion of that foole": John Knight and the Jacobean pulpit, 1620-2 --
"the fishing of whales": John Donne's sermons, 1620-2 --
"Faire interpretation": The Directions and the crisis of censorship --
"wise as Serpents, and innocent as Doves": Zeal and discretion in the pulpit, 1623-5 --
"Jesus wept": the journey to Spain and pulpit lamentation --
"blinde buzzards in the choise of a wife": Sermonds and the moral marketplace --
"The lovesick spouse": Parliament, patriots, and the public sphere --
"Church-quakes": post-parliamentary faultlines --
"If the foundations be destroyed": Rules of engagement --
"blessed sobriety": John donne, the public sphere, and Caroline Conformity.
Series Title: Studies in Renaissance literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), v. 13.
Responsibility: Jeanne Shami.
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"This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period; while they are in no way "typical" of any particular preaching agenda or style, they articulate these crises in their most complex forms and expose fault lines in the late Jacobean Church."--Jacket.

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