Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature

Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature

Author: Gregory Kneidel

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 226

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Offering new readings of major eary modern English poets such as Spenser, Milton and Donne, Kneidel counters the trend among literary critics to associate early modern religion with Pauline inwardness and self-formation by showing how these writers took Saint Paul as a model of rhetorical skill and political acumen.