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The literature of conversion in early modern England (William Alabaster, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, John Dryden)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The literature of conversion in early modern England (William Alabaster, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, John Dryden)
Author:	Murray, Mary Pollard.
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Director: Annabel Patterson.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0945.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Literature, English.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3125269
ISBN:	0496725599

The literature of conversion in early modern England (William Alabaster, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, John Dryden)
Murray, Mary Pollard.

The literature of conversion in early modern England (William Alabaster, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, John Dryden) [electronic resource] - 239 p.

Director: Annabel Patterson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2004.

My four chapters, arranged chronologically, center on four converting poets with divergent religious and aesthetic profiles: William Alabaster, the Elizabethan Protestant propagandist turned Catholic sonneteer; John Donne, the Jacobean Catholic loyalist turned Protestant preacher; Richard Crashaw, Laudian "chaplain of the Virgin mylde" turned Italian priest; and, finally, John Dryden, the Restoration wit turned Catholic fabulist. I suggest that the texts produced by this varied company avoid the static pieties of contemporary religious writing, Catholic and Protestant alike, emphasizing instead the linked mutabilities of belief and its expression. So, in his sonnets, Alabaster rejects the conventional devotional postures of Catholic poets like Southwell or Constable, and presents tableaux of violent spiritual metamorphosis. Donne deliberately imitates other printed accounts of motives for conversion in Satyre III, Pseudo-Martyr, and several late religious lyrics, but omits their standard conclusions, steadfastly refusing to reveal the coordinates of the "one true church." Crashaw flouts masculine anxieties about "converting ladies" by celebrating (and identifying with) the ambiguously charged eroticism of female spiritual transformation, most notoriously the hermaphroditic ecstasy of St. Teresa in The Flaming Hart. Finally, in The Hind and the Panther, Dryden undermines his own claims to catechetical plainness. Instead of offering a clear statement of Catholic doctrine, this poem both represents and contextualizes Dryden's own religious alterations, tracing throughout the foregoing century a larger history---and literature---of conversion.

ISBN: 0496725599Subjects--Topical Terms:

212435
Literature, English.

The literature of conversion in early modern England (William Alabaster, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, John Dryden)
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520 # $a Recent historical work has described the extreme instability of English religion in the early modern period, instability that can be seen with particular vividness in the startling number of individual conversions, both to and from the Church of Rome, in the decades following the English reformation. This dissertation investigates the literary implications of such conversions, using writings by and about converts in order to dismantle the persistent and misleading critical distinction between "Protestant" and "Catholic" writing in Renaissance England. I argue that conversion, while providing a fruitful subject for polemic and propaganda, could also galvanize formal and stylistic innovations on the part of converts themselves.
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