Religion, literature, and politics in post-Reformation England, 1540-1688
By: edited by Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier.
Contributors: Hamilton, Donna B.; Strier, Richard.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; England -- Church history -- 16th century.; England -- Church history -- 17th century.; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603.; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Description: This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional treatises, political treatises and histories.

It breaks down normal distinctions between Tudor and Stuart, pre- and post-Restoration periods to reveal a coherent (though not all serene and untroubled) post-Reformation culture struggling with major issues of belief, practice, and authority.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.