Conscience in early modern English literature:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: thus conscience; 1. Destructuring: Aquinas, Luther, Perkins; 2. Spenser's allegorical conscience; 3. Con-science in Macbeth; 4. Casuistry and antinomianism; 5. Public discourses: toleration, revolution, sovereignty; 6. Milton's expansive consc...

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Main Author: Stoll, Abraham Dylan 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
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Summary:Machine generated contents note: Introduction: thus conscience; 1. Destructuring: Aquinas, Luther, Perkins; 2. Spenser's allegorical conscience; 3. Con-science in Macbeth; 4. Casuistry and antinomianism; 5. Public discourses: toleration, revolution, sovereignty; 6. Milton's expansive conscience; Bibliography; Index
Conscience in Early Modern English Literature describes how poetry, theology, and politics intersect in the early modern conscience. In the wake of the Reformation, theologians attempt to understand how the faculty works, poets attempt to capture the experience of being in its grip, and revolutionaries attempt to assert its authority for political action. The result, Abraham Stoll argues, is a dynamic scene of conscience in England, thick with the energies of salvation and subjectivity, and influential in the public sphere of Civil War politics. Stoll explores how Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, and Milton stage the inward experience of conscience. He links these poetic scenes to Luther, Calvin, and English Reformation theology. He also demonstrates how they shape the public discourses of conscience in such places as the toleration debates, among Levellers, and in the prose of Hobbes and Milton. In the literature of the early modern conscience, Protestant subjectivity evolves toward the political subject of modern liberalism
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 216 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108291309
DOI:10.1017/9781108291309

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