Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning

ISBN-13: 9783319965765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 255 str.

Abigail Shinn

Opis

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history of the conversion narrative the book charts for the first time writers' experimentation and engagement with rhetorical theory before the genre's relative stabilization in the 1650s.

Recenzje

"Shinn's Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning will be of interest to scholars of religious conversion, early modern rhetoric, and sacred travels." (Danielle Sottosanti, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, February 10, 2021)

Spis treści

Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Convert and the Book.- Chapter Two: Crafting the Convert.- Chapter 3: Narrative Topographies and the Geographies of Conversion.- Chapter 4: Corporeal Rhetoric: Perception and Proof in the Conversion Narrative.- Bibliography.

O autorze

Abigail Shinn is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.