Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England

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Jesse Lander investigates the contexts of print, polemic, and religious debate in Renaissance literature. Wide-ranging in its consideration of literary and polemical texts, this study is an important contribution to the history of the book and the wider political and religious contexts of early modern literature.

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Inventing Polemic examines the ways in which the new technology of print and Reformation polemic together dramatically transformed the literary culture of early modern England. Bringing together recent important work in two distinct areas, the history of the book and the history of religion, it gives an innovative account of the formation of literary culture in Tudor-Stuart England. Each of the central chapters of the book focuses on a specific publishing event: Foxe's Actes and Monuments, the Marprelate pamphlets, the first two quartos of Hamlet, Donne's Pseudo-Martyr and The Anatomy of the World, and Milton's Areopagitica. In a discussion of the Restoration publisher Jacob Tonson and the eighteenth-century literary entrepreneur Samuel Johnson, Lander also considers the way in which subsequent understandings of literature and the literary were shaped by a conscious and conspicuous rejection of polemic. This study is an important contribution to the history of the book.

Author Biography

Jesse M. Lander is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include Renaissance Drama, the Reformation, and Shakespeare Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The disorder of books; 1. Foxe's Books of Martyrs: printing and popularizing the Actes and Monuments; 2. Martin Marprelate and the fugitive text; 3. 'Whole Hamlets': Q1, Q2, and the work of distinction; 4. Printing Donne: poetry and polemic in the early seventeenth century; 5. Areopagitica and 'The True Warfaring Christian'; 6. Institutionalizing polemic: the rise and fall of Chelsea College; Epilogue: Polite learning.

Review

'Lander's study is important for its sobering argument that 'the literary culture of early modern England was fractious, robust, and deeply polemical ...' SEL: Studies in English Literature '... there is a real contribution to several debates here, and this study opens up an illuminating perspective on some key aspects of the period.' The Glass

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An investigation into the contexts of print, polemic, and religious debate in Renaissance literature.

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Jesse Lander explores the development of the book in early modern England as both a physical object and a platform for debate and polemic. Wide-ranging in its consideration of texts, from Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Milton's Areopagitica and Hamlet to ephemeral polemical pamphlets from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the volume recasts the historical and theological contexts of early modern English literature.

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'Lander's study is important for its sobering argument that 'the literary culture of early modern England was fractious, robust, and deeply polemical ...'SEL: Studies in English Literature

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An investigation into the contexts of print, polemic, and religious debate in Renaissance literature.

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Jesse Lander investigates the contexts of print, polemic, and religious debate in Renaissance literature. Wide-ranging in its consideration of literary and polemical texts, this study is an important contribution to the history of the book and the wider political and religious contexts of early modern literature.

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Jesse Lander investigates the contexts of print, polemic, and religious debate in Renaissance literature. Wide-ranging in its consideration of literary and polemical texts, this study is an important contribution to the history of the book and the wider political and religious contexts of early modern literature.

Details ISBN0521838541 Author Jesse M. Lander Short Title INVENTING POLEMIC Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521838541 ISBN-13 9780521838542 Media Book Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 20 tones Affiliation University of Notre Dame, Indiana DOI 10.1604/9780521838542 UK Release Date 2006-03-30 AU Release Date 2006-03-30 NZ Release Date 2006-03-30 Pages 336 Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-03-30 Alternative 9780521120241 DEWEY 239 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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