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Politics, religion, and the song of songs in seventeenth-century England
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Clarke, Elizabeth (2011) Politics, religion, and the song of songs in seventeenth-century England. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333714119
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Abstract
This book investigates a surprising textual and spiritual phenomenon - the huge number of versions of the Song of Songs produced in England in the century and a half after the Reformation. The Biblical book as interpreted by Calvinist commentators is seen to encode metaphorically many of the key Reformation doctrines. The love affair which is the book's main focus is interpreted allegorically (and sometimes absurdly) to advocate a particularly close relationship between the believer and Christ. This way of reading the text became controversial as the seventeenth century proceeded: however, it sustained a Puritan constituency in the religiously-driven warfare and rebellions that took place in England. The widespread nature of the metaphor of the Bride for the holy soul, especially as she was the author of much of the poetry of the Song, encouraged women to pick up the pen in an age when authorship was thought of as male.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
Place of Publication: | Basingstoke | ||||
ISBN: | 9780333714119 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 265 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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