{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-early-modern-english-literature-and-religion-paperback","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Hiscock\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHelen Wilcox\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Hiscock, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales\u003c\/em\u003e, Helen Wilcox, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English Literature, School of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndrew Hiscock is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. He has published widely on English and French early modern literature. He is a Trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association and a Fellow of the English Association. He is English literature editor of the journal MLR, series editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Yearbook of English Studies\u003c\/em\u003e and series co-editor of \u003cem\u003eArden Early Modern Drama Guides\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a former AHRC research fellow and is a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age and the Enlightenment at Montpellier 3 University. His most recent monograph is entitled \u003cem\u003eReading Memory in Early Modern Literature\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHelen Wilcox is Professor of English Literature at Bangor University. She has published extensively on early modern English literature, particularly devotional poetry, women's writing, Shakespeare, early autobiography, and the relationships between literature and religion, music, and the visual arts. Her publications include \u003cem\u003eHer Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 1989), the acclaimed annotated edition of \u003cem\u003eThe English Poems of George Herbert\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 2007) and \u003cem\u003e1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). She has been a visiting professor in Singapore, Spain, and the USA., and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association, and the Learned Society of Wales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 850\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.8 x 9.6 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47404456247474,"sku":"9780198857341","price":95.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b907e59c75bbc2049bb716d817e6bc4f.webp?v=1778161038","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-early-modern-english-literature-and-religion-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}