Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England
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Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England by Brooke Conti
In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography. Brooke Conti positions these texts as products of the era's tense political climate.
"Learned yet also elegantly written. . . This is a superb work that models how historical contextualization can be combined with acute close reading of notoriously difficult texts." * Modern Philology *
"Conti's book reminds us of how complex and layered religious experience was for the early moderns, from ably working around the epistemological obstacles to knowing their faiths, to a much richer assessment of how they explored and constructed them." * Studies in English Literature *
"Brooke Conti's claims are fresh, insightful, and important. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England allows us to see her texts in a new way, and as connected to the larger issue of trying to write about one's private religion in a period when religion was public, and one's relation to the state religion was a matter of importance, fraught with danger." * Achsah Guibbory, Barnard College *
"Conti's book reminds us of how complex and layered religious experience was for the early moderns, from ably working around the epistemological obstacles to knowing their faiths, to a much richer assessment of how they explored and constructed them." * Studies in English Literature *
"Brooke Conti's claims are fresh, insightful, and important. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England allows us to see her texts in a new way, and as connected to the larger issue of trying to write about one's private religion in a period when religion was public, and one's relation to the state religion was a matter of importance, fraught with danger." * Achsah Guibbory, Barnard College *
Brooke Conti is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, College at Brockport.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812245752 |
| ISBN 10 | 081224575X |
| Title | Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England |
| Author | Brooke Conti |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2014-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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