Literature and the Scottish Reformation
By: David George Mullan, Crawford Gribben
Contributors: Gribben, Crawford, editor
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Publisher: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781351921978
Subjects: Reformation; Scottish literature; History and criticism; Réforme (Christianisme); Littérature écossaise; Histoire et critique
Description: Literature and the Scottish Reformation offers a full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between literature and Reformation in early modern Scotland. Previous scholarship in this area has tended to dismiss the literary value of the writing of the period - largely as a reaction to its regular theological interests. Instead the essays in this volume reinforce recent work that challenges the received scholarly consensus by taking these interests seriously, and argues for the importance of this religiously orientated writing through the adoption of a series of interdisciplinary a.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Contexts; title: pt. 2. Texts; title: pt. 3. Reception.