{"product_id":"ceremony-and-community-from-herbert-to-milton-literature-religion-and-cultural-conflict-in-seventeenth-century-england-hardback-9780521593557","title":"Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton; Literature, Religion and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardback) 9780521593557","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCeremony and Community from Herbert to Milton\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterature, Religion and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginal readings of Herbert, Herrick, Browne and Milton in the context of seventeenth-century religious conflict.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAchsah Guibbory (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521593557, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 January 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.535 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… painstaking research into religious controversy.' The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book examines the relationship between literature and religious conflict in seventeenth-century England, showing how literary texts grew out of and addressed the contemporary controversy over ceremonial worship. Examining the meaning and function of religion in seventeenth-century England, the book shows that the conflicts over religious ceremony which were central to the English Revolution had broad cultural significance; they involved not only conflicting attitudes towards art and the body, but a clash between different ways of constructing social relations, human identity, and the relation of the Protestant present to the Jewish, pagan and Catholic past. Achsah Guibbory's readings of Herbert, Herrick, Browne, Donne and Milton explain how their writings show what was at stake in the conflict over ceremonial worship, and how different ideas of community turned on that conflict.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reading the conflicts: ceremony, ideology and the meaning of religion\u003cbr\u003e 3. George Herbert: devotion in The Temple and the art of contradiction\u003cbr\u003e 4. Robert Herrick: religious experience in the 'Temple' of Hesperides\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sir Thomas Browne: the promiscuous embrace of ritual order\u003cbr\u003e 6. John Milton: carnal idolatry and the reconfiguration of worship, part I, 1634–1660\u003cbr\u003e 7. John Milton: carnal idolatry and the reconfiguration of worship, part II, after the Restoration: the major poems\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005929115928,"sku":"9780521593557","price":81.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521593557i_29c6e883-719f-4d93-a9cf-d8050364bc2b.jpg?v=1691370181","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ceremony-and-community-from-herbert-to-milton-literature-religion-and-cultural-conflict-in-seventeenth-century-england-hardback-9780521593557","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}