| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Britton examines English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger. Through charting the intersections of race, Protestant theology, and literary form, the book intervenes in critical debates about the relationship between racial and religious identity in early modern England, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Not Turning the Ethiope White -- 1. "The Baptiz'd Race" -- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene -- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington's Orlando Furioso -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-'turning' Othello and the Location of Christian Identity -- 5. Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage -- Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Religion and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Conversion in literature.
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Christians in literature.
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Christians in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Conversion in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. |
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English literature -- Early modern. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
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Baptism. |
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Church of England. |
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Edmund Spenser. |
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English literature. |
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Jews. |
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Muslims. |
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Race. |
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Romance. |
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William Shakespeare. |
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conversion. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Britton, Dennis Austin. Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2014 xi, 259 pages 9780823257140 |
| ISBN |
9780823260836 (ebook) |
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0823260836 (ebook) |
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9780823257171 |
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0823257177 |
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9780823257157 |
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0823257150 |
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9780823257140 |
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0823257142 |
| Standard No. |
40023903879 |
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