Synopses & Reviews
This exciting volume of essays reassesses and reasserts the centrality of preaching in early modern English culture. Showcasing the work of established experts and scholars in the fields of English literature, history and religious studies, it offers a retrospective review of how sermons have figured in past scholarship and teaching, and points to new ways to study sermons as literary artifact and historical evidence. The interdisciplinary group of contributors demonstrate the pertinence of sermons to a new generation of Renaissance literary studies.
Table of Contents
I: Introduction * Revising the Study of the English Sermon--Lori Anne Ferrell & Peter McCullough *
II: The Rhetoric of Preaching * "Every Man that Prints Adventures"--Andrew Fitzmaurice * Elect Nations and Prophetic Preaching--Mary Morrissey * Thomas Playfere's Poetics of Preaching--Bryan Crockett *
III: Sermons on Emergent Political Occasions * Tuning the Pulpits--Arnold Hunt * Absolutist Theology--Debora Shuger * Anti-Catholicism in the Sermons of John Donne--Jeanne Shammi * Joseph Hall, Robert Skinner and the Rhetoric of Moderation at the Early Stuart Court--Peter Lake *
IV: Sermons and the Modern "Public Sphere" * "To Lye upon a Stationers Stall, Like a Piece of Coarse Flesh in a Shambles"--James Rigney * The Sermon, the "Public Sphere" and the Political Culture of Late 17th-Century England--Tony Claydon * Preaching Parliament--James Caudle
I: Introduction * Revising the Study of the English Sermon--Lori Anne Ferrell & Peter McCullough *
II: The Rhetoric of Preaching * "Every Man that Prints Adventures"--Andrew Fitzmaurice * Elect Nations and Prophetic Preaching--Mary Morrissey * Thomas Playfere's Poetics of Preaching--Bryan Crockett *
III: Sermons on Emergent Political Occasions * Tuning the Pulpits--Arnold Hunt * Absolutist Theology--Debora Shuger * Anti-Catholicism in the Sermons of John Donne--Jeanne Shammi * Joseph Hall, Robert Skinner and the Rhetoric of Moderation at the Early Stuart Court--Peter Lake *
IV: Sermons and the Modern "Public Sphere" * "To Lye upon a Stationers Stall, Like a Piece of Coarse Flesh in a Shambles"--James Rigney * The Sermon, the "Public Sphere" and the Political Culture of Late 17th-Century England--Tony Claydon * Preaching Parliament--James Caudle