Permanent revolution : the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism /

The proto-Liberalism of the late seventeenth century in England reverses all the central persuasions of illiberal evangelical religion of the early sixteenth century. Free-will, division of powers, non-literalist Biblical reading, aesthetics, theatricality: each reverses cardinal positions of Luther...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Simpson, James, 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1500-1699
Reformation > England.
Social change > England.
Social change > Religious aspects > Protestant churches.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 17th century.
Religion and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Religion and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Religion et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Religion et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and society.
Reformation.
Religion and literature.
Social change.
England.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Religion as revolution: Revolutionary religion
  • Permanently revolutionary religion
  • Part II. Working modernity's despair: Modernizing despair
  • Modernizing despair: lyric and narrative entrapment
  • Modernizing despair's epic non-escape
  • Part III. Sincerity and hypocrisy: Pre-modern and Henrician hypocrisy
  • The revolutionary hypocrite: Elizabethan hypocrisy
  • Managing hypocrisy?: Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan, 1689
  • Part IV. Breaking idols: Liberating iconoclasm
  • Saving images and the Calvinist hammer
  • One last iconoclastic push?
  • Part V. Theater, magic, sacrament: Religion, dramicide, and the rise of magic
  • Enemies of the revolution: magic and theater
  • Last judgements: stage managing the magic
  • Part VI. Managing scripture: Scripture: institutions, interpretation, and violence
  • Private scriptural anguish
  • Escaping literalism's trap
  • Part VII. Liberty and liberties: Liberty taking liberties.

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