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Genre/Form: | Church history History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Iver Kaufman |
ISBN: | 025202222X 9780252022227 |
OCLC Number: | 32924866 |
Description: | xii, 166 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | "Much in prayer" -- Wretched -- Hamlet's "kind of fighting" -- Donne, a conclusion. |
Series Title: | Studies in Anglican history. |
Responsibility: | Peter Iver Kaufman. |
Abstract:
Prayer, Despair, and Drama explores the godly sorrow of Elizabethan Calvinists and finds that what some have characterized as an evangelism of fear functioned more as a kind of religious therapy. In this major contribution to discussions of the relationship between religion and literature in Elizabethan England, Peter Iver Kaufman argues that the soul-searching and self-scourging typical of late Tudor Calvinism was reflected in the rhetoric of self-loathing then prevalent in sermons, sonnets, and soliloquys. Kaufman shows how this spiritual psychology informs major literary texts including Hamlet, The Faerie Queene, Donne's Holy Sonnets, and other works.
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"Scholars of the English Renaissance will profit from this book by a historian of religion... But for the literary scholar the value of the book lies in the insights Kaufman provides into the religious culture of the late sixteenth century... By offering a glimpse of what Kaufman convincingly argues is a sizable swath of cultural consciousness, this study ought to help us rethink the interpretation of religion and literary discourse in early modern Europe." -- Richard Mallette, Journal of English and Germanic Philology Read more...
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