{"product_id":"religious-diversity-and-early-modern-arthur-f-marotti-9780814339558","title":"Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eInvestigates the religious diversity in early modern English literature and culture in relation to a dominant English Protestant national identity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eReligious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions, \u003c\/i\u003eeditors Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt present thirteen essays that examine the complex religious culture of early modern England. Emphasizing particularly the marginalized discourses of Catholicism and Judaism in mainstream English Protestant culture, the authors highlight the instability of an official religious order that was troubled not only by religious heterodoxy but also by feminist and secular challenges. North American and Israeli scholars present essays on a wide range of subjects all assumed to be \"marginal\" but which in a real sense were central to the religious and cultural life of the Protestant English nation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Using critical methods ranging from historical analysis, deconstruction, feminist inquiry, and intertextual interpretation to pedagogical experimentation, contributors offer analyses in five sections: Minority Catholic Culture, Figuring the Jew, Hebraism and the Bible, Women and Religion, and Religion and Secularization. Essays reveal new aspects of familiar texts such as Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eKing Lear \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice, \u003c\/i\u003ethe psalm translations by Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, Christopher Marlowe's dramas\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e George Herbert's poetry, Aemelia Lanyer's \u003ci\u003eSalve Deus Rex Judaeorum, \u003c\/i\u003e and John Milton's \u003ci\u003eSamson Agonistes.\u003c\/i\u003e They also call attention to works such as the mid-sixteenth-century play \u003ci\u003eThe Historie of Jacob and Esau, \u003c\/i\u003eWilliam Blundell's Catholic antiquarian writing, the series of paintings portraying the religious institute of Mary Ward, and funeral sermons for religiously active women. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors show that we cannot understand a culture without attending to its repressed, marginalized, and unacknowledged elements. Scholars of religious, literary, and cultural history will enjoy this illuminating collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur F. Marotti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814339557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814339558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Arthur F. Marotti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46292899201279,"sku":"9780814339558","price":56.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc6ddea6-c106-4093-9e03-058350cc4115.jpg?v=1730210493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/religious-diversity-and-early-modern-arthur-f-marotti-9780814339558","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}