The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558–1582 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558–1582 write by Stephen Hamrick. This book was released on 2016-12-05. The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558–1582 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stephen Hamrick demonstrates how poets writing in the first part of Elizabeth I's reign proved instrumental in transferring Catholic worldviews and paradigms to the cults and early anti-cults of Elizabeth. Stephen Hamrick provides a detailed analysis of poets who used Petrarchan poetry to transform many forms of Catholic piety, ranging from confession and transubstantiation to sacred scriptures and liturgical singing, into a multivocal discourse used to fashion, refashion, and contest strategic political, religious, and courtly identities for the Queen and for other Court patrons. These poets, writers previously overlooked in many studies of Tudor culture, include Barnabe Googe, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Watson. Stephen Hamrick here shows that the nature of the religious reformations in Tudor England provided the necessary contexts required for Petrarchanism to achieve its cultural centrality and artistic complexity. This study makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the complex interaction among Catholicism, Petrachanism, and the second English Reformation.
Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts
Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts write by Arthur F. Marotti. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars of religious, literary, and cultural history will enjoy this illuminating collection.
Beyond the Cloister
Beyond the Cloister - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Cloister write by Jenna Lay. This book was released on 2016-07-12. Beyond the Cloister available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic Englishwomen, whether living in convents on the European continent or as recusants in their own country, contributed to these debates, but even as their writings addressed the central religious and political issues of their time, their contributions were effaced and now are largely forgotten. Exploring the writings of Catholic women in conversation with those of Shakespeare, Marvell, Marlowe, Donne, and other canonical authors, Beyond the Cloister shows that nuns and recusants were centrally important to the development of English literature. The defining narratives of early modern England cast nuns as the relics of an unenlightened past and equated Catholic femininity with the dangerous charms of the Whore of Babylon. With careful attention to literary figurations of Catholic femininity and to the vibrant manuscript culture in the English convents, Jenna Lay reveals a far more complex reality. Through their use of tropes, figures, generic patterns, and literary allusions, Catholic women produced politically incendiary and rhetorically powerful lyrics, prayers, polemics, and hagiographies. Drawing on the insights of religious studies, historical formalism, and feminist criticism, Beyond the Cloister offers a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history.
Queer Shakespeare
Queer Shakespeare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer Shakespeare write by Goran Stanivukovic. This book was released on 2017-07-13. Queer Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation.
Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588 and 1589
Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 write by Jeremy L. Smith. This book was released on 2016. Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author offers close examination of the English-language songs of Byrd published in the late 1580s, looking at the music, texts, politics, and other aspects of the songs.
