Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625 Victoria Brownlee

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• ISBN 10: 0192540572
• ISBN 13: 9780192540577
• Author: Victoria Brownlee

The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period’s drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in early modern England. It maps the connection between these readings and various forms of writing and argues that literary writings bear the hallmarks of the period’s dominant exegetical practices, and do interpretative work. Tracing the impact of biblical reading across a range of genres and writers, the discussion demonstrates that literary reimaginings of, and allusions to, the Bible were common, varied, and ideologically evocative.

Table contents:

1:’The engrafted word’: Reading and Receiving the Scriptures in Early Modern England
2:’Our King Salomon’: Biblical Typology and the Kingship of Solomon in Tudor and Stuart England
3:A Tale of Two Jobs: Reading Suffering, Providence, and Restoration in King Leir and King Lear
4:’By moste sweete and comfortable allegories’: Locating Spiritual Significance in the Song of Songs
5:Typologies of Marian Maternity: Literal and Spiritual Birth in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing
6:Reading Revelations: Figuring the End in Post-Reformation Literary Culture

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