Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature: Penitential Remains

ISBN-13: 9781137558633 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 232 str.

Paul D. Stegner

Opis

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell.

Recenzje

"Stegner's introduction neatly traces the gradual erasure of Catholic private auricular confession after the Reformation and how confession was reoriented by the Elizabethan settlement. ... this wide-ranging study offers a timely appraisal of the relationship between memory, the penitential tradition, and early modern English literature." (Rachel Willie, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70 (1), 2017)

O autorze

Paul D. Stegner is Associate Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University, USA. His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Studies, Studies in Philology, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and several edited collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser.