Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England

✍ Scribed by Brooke Conti

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 235
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography. Brooke Conti positions these texts as products of the era's tense political climate.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Note on Spelling and Punctuation
Introduction
PART I Oaths of Allegiance
Chapter 1. James VI and I and the Autobiographical Double Bind
Chapter 2. Conversion and Confession in Donne’s Prose
PART II Personal Credos
Chapter 3. Milton and Autobiography in Crisis
Chapter 4. Thomas Browne’s Uneasy Confession of Faith
PART III Loyal Dissents?
Chapter 5 John Bunyan’s Double Autobiography
Chapter 6 James II and the End of the Confession of Faith
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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