Literature religious culture 17th cen england

Reid Barbour9780511019043, 0521006643, 0511483449, 0511019041, 9780511483448, 9780521006644

Reid Barbour’s study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625 1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, in terms of heroic endeavors, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. This broad ranging study offers an extensive reappraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Dedication……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Acknowledgments……Page 10
Introduction: spirit and circumstance in Caroline Protestantism……Page 11
I……Page 14
II……Page 20
CHAPTER 1 The church heroic: Charles, Laud, and Little Gidding……Page 31
I……Page 34
II……Page 44
III……Page 52
IV……Page 58
V……Page 64
CHAPTER 2 Great Tew and the skeptical hero……Page 66
I……Page 69
II……Page 71
III……Page 76
IV……Page 79
V……Page 84
VI……Page 88
VII……Page 95
CHAPTER 3 Between liturgy and dreams: the church fanciful……Page 101
I……Page 103
II……Page 108
III……Page 114
IV……Page 125
CHAPTER 4 Respecting persons……Page 128
I……Page 130
II……Page 137
III……Page 143
IV……Page 150
CHAPTER 5 Decorum and redemption in the theater of the person……Page 161
I……Page 163
II……Page 170
III……Page 173
I……Page 186
II……Page 194
III……Page 199
IV……Page 213
CHAPTER 7 Nature (II): church and cosmos……Page 220
I……Page 221
II……Page 224
III……Page 226
IV……Page 242
Conclusion: Rome, Massachusetts, and the Caroline Protestant imagination……Page 246
INTRODUCTION……Page 261
1 THE CHURCH HEROIC: CHARLES, LAUD, AND LITTLE GIDDING……Page 262
2 GREAT TEW AND THE SKEPTICAL HERO……Page 266
3 BETWEEN LITURGY AND DREAMS……Page 271
4 RESPECTING PERSONS……Page 274
5 DECORUM AND REDEMPTION IN THE THEATER OF THE PERSON……Page 277
6 NATURE (I): POST-BACONIAN MYSTERIES……Page 280
7 NATURE (II): CHURCH AND COSMOS……Page 282
CONCLUSION: ROME, MASSACHUSETTS, AND THE CAROLINE PROTESTANT IMAGINATION……Page 283
Index……Page 286