UID:
almafu_9960117125202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-76545-3
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9786610765454
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1-84615-094-9
Serie:
Studies in Renaissance literature, v. 13
Inhalt:
This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period; while they are in no way 'typical' of any particular preaching agenda or style, they articulate these crises in their most complex forms and expose fault lines in the late Jacobean Church. The study is framed by Donne's two most pointed contributions to the public sphere: his sermon defending James I's Directions to Preachers and his first sermon preached before Charles I in 1625. These two sermons emerge from the crises of controversy, censorship, and identity that converged in the late Jacobean period, and mark Donne's clearest professional interventions in the public debate about the nature and direction of the Church of England. In them, Donne interrogates the boundaries of the public sphere and of his conformity to the institutions, authorities, and traditions governing public debate in that sphere, modelling for his audience an actively engaged conformist identity. Professor JEANNE SHAMI teaches in the Department of English at the University of Regina.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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"discreet or religious preachers"" John Donne and the late Jacobean Public sphere -- "the indiscretion of that foole": John Knight and the Jacobean pulpit, 1620-2 -- "the fishing of whales": John Donne's sermons, 1620-2 -- "Faire interpretation": The Directions and the crisis of censorship -- "wise as Serpents, and innocent as Doves": Zeal and discretion in the pulpit, 1623-5 -- "Jesus wept": the journey to Spain and pulpit lamentation -- "blinde buzzards in the choise of a wife": Sermonds and the moral marketplace -- "The lovesick spouse": Parliament, patriots, and the public sphere -- "Church-quakes": post-parliamentary faultlines -- "If the foundations be destroyed": Rules of engagement -- "blessed sobriety": John donne, the public sphere, and Caroline Conformity.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-85991-789-4
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
DOI:
10.1515/9781846150944
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