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Product Description: Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth. Originally published in 1979...read more
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9780691639871 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth.
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9780691611921 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth.
9780691014159 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1984), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth.
Product Description: John Milton's major poems have long provoked wide-ranging judgments about the purposes of his biblical engagement. In this elegant and insightful study, Phillip J. Donnelly transforms our common perceptions about Milton's writing...read more
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9780521509732 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2009), cover price $99.99
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9781107404519 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 10, 2012), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: John Milton's major poems have long provoked wide-ranging judgments about the purposes of his biblical engagement.
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9780820703916 | Duquesne Univ Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: 'Examines the literary ecclesiology of Paradise Regained, arguing that there Milton continues his critique of the English Reformation and also continues to develop the consistent theology of the church that preoccupied him in his prose during the Civil War'--Provided by publisher.
Product Description: This volume explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism in a trio of Shakespeare's tragedies: Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Hamlet. Bypassing the discussion of Shakespeare's personal religious beliefs, Batson instead focuses on distinct footprints left by Catholic and Protestant traditions that underlie and inform Shakespeare's artistic genius...read more
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9781932792362 | Baylor Univ Pr, December 1, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This volume explores the influences of Catholicism and Protestantism in a trio of Shakespeare's tragedies: Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Hamlet.
Product Description: Building on current scholarly interest in the religious dimensions of the play, this study shows how Shakespeare uses Hamlet to comment on the Calvinistic Protestantism predominant around 1600. By considering the play's inner workings against the religious ideas of its time, John Curran explores how Shakespeare portrays in this work a completely deterministic universe in the Calvinist mode, and, Curran argues, exposes the disturbing aspects of Calvinism...read more
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9780754654360 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 1, 2006, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Building on current scholarly interest in the religious dimensions of the play, this study shows how Shakespeare uses Hamlet to comment on the Calvinistic Protestantism predominant around 1600.
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9780814330128 | Wayne State Univ Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $45.95
Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth Century Poetry: Studies on Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan
Product Description: This book offers a comprehensive account of the literary and theological background to English devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, concentrating on four major poets, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan and Crashaw. It challenges both Protestant poetics and postmodernism, the prevailing critical approaches to Renaissance literature: by reading the poetry in the light of continental Catholic devotional literature and theology, the author demonstrates that religious poetry in seventeenth-century England was not rigidly or exclusively Protestant in its doctrinal and liturgical orientation...read more
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9780859915694 | Ds Brewer, February 1, 2000, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This book offers a comprehensive account of the literary and theological background to English devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, concentrating on four major poets, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan and Crashaw.
Product Description: This book places George Herbert's writing and biography within the history of social and economic change in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on the works of Max Weber, Raymond Williams, and the Protestant preachers of the period, the author argues that the doctrine of vocation is the shaping principle of The Temple and the prose manual The Country Parson, which coordinate inward devotion with outward social role like the soul with the body...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780804729888 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This book places George Herbert's writing and biography within the history of social and economic change in seventeenth-century England.
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9780813918396 | Univ of Virginia Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $49.50
Product Description: Huston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation--a reformed drama--and a producer of Protestant habits of thought--a reforming drama. According to Diehl, the popular London theater, which flourished in the years after Elizabeth reestablished Protestantism in England, rehearsed the religious crises that disrupted, divided, energized, and in many respects revolutionized English society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780801433030 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Huston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation--a reformed drama--and a producer of Protestant habits of thought--a reforming drama.
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9780837123332 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1969), cover price $36.95
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