Politics, religion and the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England

The 'Song of Songs', with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase. This book charts the fascination with the mystical marriage, its implication in the various political conflicts of the seventeenth century, and its appeal to seventeenth-century writers, particularly women. ELIZABETH CLARKE is Reader in English at Warwick University, UK, where sheleads the Perdita Project investigating women's manuscript writing in the Early Modern period. INDICE: - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Royal Brides and National Identity 1603-1625 - 'The Mysticall Marriage', Martyrology and Arminianism 1625-1640 - Emblematic Marriage at the 1630s Court - From Annotations to Commentary: New Spectacles on the 'Song of Songs - 'The Seventeenth-Century Woman Writer and the Bride - Politics, Metaphor and the 'Song of Songs' in the 1670s - Epilogue: Benjamin Keach Rewriting the Bride - Bibliography - Index - -

• ISBN: 978-0-333-71411-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 15/02/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido