Discovering and (Re)Covering the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies) - Hardcover

9780820703176: Discovering and (Re)Covering the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)

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ISBN 10: 0820703176 ISBN 13: 9780820703176

Publisher: Duquesne Univ Pr, 2001

The seventeenth century gave rise to the greatest flowering of the religious lyric in the English language. While the whole range of the devotional verse of the period is distinguished by its nuanced complexity concerning issues of theology, politics, and the historical circumstances of the individuals who produced these lyrics, modern criticism has neglected the vast majority of these works and their authors. The purpose of this volume, therefore, is to discover and (re)cover the devotional lyricists who have historically been overlooked altogether or dismissed as not belonging to the first order of poets. Precisely focused on that end, this collection contains 15 original essays that broaden our understanding of the seventeenth century religious lyric by examining the contributions of such writers as Robert Southwell, Aemilia Lanyer, William Alabaster, William Drummond, William Austin, Patrick Carey and others.

Our view of seventeenth century literature cannot be complete or accurate unless we account for these neglected writers and their cultural roles in the development of the religious lyric. To that end, each of the essays in this volume seeks either explicitly or implicitly to make the canon more inclusive rather than exclusive.

Contributors

Patrick Cook Patricia Demers Robert Evans Ann Hurley George Klawitter Donna Long Kari B. McBride Sean McDowell Kate Narveson Paul Parrish Scott R. Pilarz Michael Rex Debra Rienstra Barry Spurr Paul G. Stanwood Claude Summers

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About the Author:

Eugene R. Cunnar is professor of English at New Mexico State University. He is coeditor of Major Women Writers in Seventeenth-Century England. Dr. Cunnar currently serves as executive director of the John Donne Society of America.

Jeffrey Johnson is professor of English at College Misericordia. He is the author of The Theology of John Donne and is a contributing editor for two volumes of The Variorium Edition of the Poetry of John Donne.

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