Confession and memory in early modern English literature :
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[Book]
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penitential remains /
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Paul D. Stegner.
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1 online resource.
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Early Modern Literature in History
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell
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MIL
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835150
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Title
Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature : Penitential Remains.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Confession in literature.
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Protestantism and literature-- History-- 16th century.
Protestantism and literature-- History-- 17th century.