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  3. Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2001
Online ISBN:
9780511483448
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483448
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, European Literature, European Studies
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Book description

Reid Barbour's 2002 study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625–1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of heroic endeavours, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. Barbour examines sermons and theological treatises to argue that Caroline religious culture comprises a rich and extensive stocktaking of the conditions in which Protestantism was celebrated, undercut, and experienced. Barbour argues that this stocktaking was also carried out in unusual and sometimes quite secular contexts; in the masques, plays and poetry of the era as well as in scientific works and diaries. This broad-ranging study offers an extensive appraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.

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Review of the hardback:'Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England has an exhilaratingly wide range of reference, and, in its quest to demonstrate that Church of England orthodoxy was far from uniform, goes in for some startling contrasts.'

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

Review of the hardback:'Reid Barbour offers a wide-ranging study … Barbour presents a rich array of materials and a new angle on many texts …'

Source: Literature & History

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