Enigma and revelation in Renaissance English literature
Subtitle: essays presented to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
By: Helen Cooney and Mark S. Sweetnam, editors
Contributors: Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan, 1942-
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781846822810
Subjects: Revelation in literature; English literature; History and criticism; Religion in literature; Curiosities and wonders in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Let se who dare make up the reste': fear and the interpretation of Skelton's Speke Parott  -- John Scattergood; title: The lady loves her will: riddling in The marriage of Sir Gawain  -- Erin Sebo; title: Anne Lock's anonymous friend: A meditation of a penitent sinner and the problem of ascription  -- Deirdre Serjeantson; title: 'A certaine disgracing': resonances of a Renaissance word  -- Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin; title: Facie ad Faciem: reader, protagonist, and self-reflection in Spenser's Legend of Temperance  -- Helen Cooney; title: 'This concealed man': Spenser, Ireland and Ormond (?) in Shakespeare's As you like it  -- Thomas Herron; title: The enigma of divine revelation in Tourneur's The Atheist's tragedy  -- Rory Loughnane; title: Decoding landscape and fertility in early modern travels to Palestine  -- Paris O'Donnell; title: Ignorance is iniquity: the arcana imperii in the sermons of John Donne  -- Mark S. Sweetnam; title: Millennialism and the renewal of nature: Thomas Fairfax, the Diggers and Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House'  -- Crawford Gribben; title: 'Lycidas' (1637) and timely reading: some observations on John Milton and Histories of Ireland (1633)  -- W.J. McCormack; title: 'Very far from being dark and affectedly mysterious': women, philosophy and the interpretation of Genesis 1-3 in seventeenth-century England -- John Flood.