Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature
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[book]
Other Title Information
: Penitential Remains
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\ Paul D. Stegner.
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New York, NY
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: Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2016.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 232 p.
SERIES
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Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Confession and memory in the age of reformations -- Confession and redemptive forgetting in Spenser's Legend of holiness: memories of sin, memories of salvation -- The will to forget: Ovidian heroism and the compulsion to confess in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- "Try what repentance can": Hamlet, confession, and the extraction of interiority -- Will and the reconciled maid: rereading confession and remembering sin in Shake-speares sonnets -- Treasonous reconciliations: Robert Southwell, religious polemic, and the criminalization of confession -- Conclusion: memories of confession in seventeenth-century England.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
Confession in literature.
Repentance in literature.
Memory in literature.
Protestantism and literature -- History -- 16th century.
Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century.
ادبیات انگلیسی -- انگلیسی جدید، ۱۵۰۰ - ۱۷۰۰م. -- تاریخ و نقد