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1 online resource (x, 225 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Shame, guilt, and moral character in early modern English protestant theology and Sir Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia -- The three orders of nature, grace, and law in Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene, book II -- Conformist and puritan moral theory : from Richard Hooker's natural law theory to Richard Sibbes's ethical occasionalism -- The elect body in pain : Godly fear and sanctification in John Donne's poetry and prose -- Absent neighbors in George Herbert's "the church," or why agape becomes caritas in English Protestant devotional poetry -- Moral pragmatism in the theology of John Milton and his contemporaries. |
| Summary |
Paul Cefalu's study explores the relationship between ethical character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, as well as in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Conformist and Puritan sermons, theological tracts, and philosophical treatises. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Christian ethics in literature.
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Christian ethics in literature. |
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English literature -- Protestant authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Protestant authors. |
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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 |
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Protestantism and literature -- History -- 16th century.
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Protestantism and literature. |
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Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Group identity in literature.
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Group identity in literature. |
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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cefalu, Paul. Moral identity in early modern English literature. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2004048598 |
| ISBN |
0511264909 (electronic book) |
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9780511265624 (electronic book) |
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051126562X (electronic book) |
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0511263333 |
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9780511263330 |
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0511264143 |
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9780511264146 |
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9780511264900 (electronic book) |
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9780521838078 (hardback) |
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052183807X (hardback) |
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1280749660 |
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9781280749667 |
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052183807X (Cloth) |
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