Liturgy and Literature in the Making of Protestant England新教英格兰形成过程中的礼拜仪式与文学

作者： Timothy Rosendale著

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出版时间： 2007-11-1字数：版次： 1页数： 237印刷时间： 2007/11/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780521877749包装： 精装编辑推荐

作者介绍：Timothy Rosendale

Timothy Rosendale is Assistant Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

内容简介

The Book of Common Prayer is one of the most important and influential books in English history, but it has received relatively little attention from literary scholars. This study seeks to remedy this by attending to the Prayerbook's importance in England's political, intellectual, religious, and literary history. The first half of the book presents extensive analyses of the Book of Common Prayer's involvement in early modern discourses of nationalism and individualism, and argues that the liturgy sought to engage and textually reconcile these potentially-competing cultural impulses. In its second half, Liturgy and Literature traces these tensions in subsequent works by four major authors - Sidney, Shakespeare, Milton, and Hobbes - and contends that they operate within the dialectical parameters laid out in the Prayerbook decades earlier. Rosendale's analyses are supplemented by a brief history of the Book of Common Prayer, and by an appendix which discusses its contents.

目录

Acknowledgments

Note on texts

Introduction

PRELUDE/MATTINS: THROUGH 1549

1 The Book of Common Prayer and national identity

2 The Book of Common Prayer and individual identity

INTERLUDE: 1549-1662

3 Representation and authority in Renaissance literature

4 Revolution and representation

POSTLUDE/EVENSONG: 1662--PRESENT

Appendix: "THE booke"

Bibliography

Index