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Moral identity in early modern English literature /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Moral identity in early modern English literature // Paul Cefalu.
作者:	Cefalu, Paul,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (x, 225 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Ethics in literature. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483486
ISBN:	9780511483486 (ebook)

Moral identity in early modern English literature /
Cefalu, Paul,

Moral identity in early modern English literature /Paul Cefalu. - 1 online resource (x, 225 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Shame, guilt, and moral character in early modern English protestant theology and Sir Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia -- The three orders of nature, grace, and law in Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene, book II -- Conformist and puritan moral theory : from Richard Hooker's natural law theory to Richard Sibbes's ethical occasionalism -- The elect body in pain : Godly fear and sanctification in John Donne's poetry and prose -- Absent neighbors in George Herbert's "the church," or why agape becomes caritas in English Protestant devotional poetry -- Moral pragmatism in the theology of John Milton and his contemporaries.

Paul Cefalu's study explores the relationship between moral character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, as well as in early modern English Conformist and Puritan sermons, theological tracts, and philosophical treatises. Cefalu argues that early modern Protestant theologians were often unable to incorporate a coherent theory of practical morality into the order of salvation. Cefalu draws on fresh historicist theories of ideology and subversion, but takes issue with historicist tendency to conflate generic and categorical distinctions among texts. He argues that imaginative literature, by virtue of its tendency to place characters in approximately real ethical quandaries, uniquely points out the inability of early modern English Protestant theology to merge religious theory and ethical practice. This study should appeal not only to literary critics and historians, but also to scholars interested in the history of moral theory.

ISBN: 9780511483486 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

563990
Ethics in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR428.C48 / C44 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/38241

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