Title: Age of iron
First published: 1998
Description: In Age of Iron, Gale Carrithers and James Hardy scrutinize the habits of thought during the so-called long century of the English Renaissance, or Age of Iron, as many then termed it. Through illuminating argument, the authors reassert the essentially religious dynamism of English Renaissance culture, significantly strengthening a nascent countercurrent to recent scholarship's emphasis on secular power as the ascendant preoccupation of the era.

Whereas latter-day literary and historical scholars have stressed secondary issues of political and economic power, class, gender, and race, Carrithers and Hardy underscore love - in its agapaic, philadelphic, and erotic modalities, and through the media of the tropes - love as a complement and alternative to secular power.
Subjects: History, Literature and history, English literature, History and criticism, Christianity and literature, Renaissance, Love in literature, Power (Social sciences) in literature, Early modern, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, Littérature et histoire, Histoire, Christianisme et littérature, Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature, Amour dans la littérature
Places: Great Britain, England
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, 16th century
LC classification: PR428.H57 C37 1998