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Subject(s)

• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• Confession in literature [Browse]
• Repentance in literature [Browse]
• Memory in literature [Browse]
• Protestantism and literature—History—16th century [Browse]
• Protestantism and literature—History—17th century [Browse]

Series

Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-227) and index.

Contents

• Confession and memory in the age of reformations
• Confession and redemptive forgetting in Spenser's Legend of holiness: memories of sin, memories of salvation
• The will to forget: Ovidian heroism and the compulsion to confess in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
• "Try what repentance can": Hamlet, confession, and the extraction of interiority
• Will and the reconciled maid: rereading confession and remembering sin in Shake-speares sonnets
• Treasonous reconciliations: Robert Southwell, religious polemic, and the criminalization of confession
• Conclusion: memories of confession in seventeenth-century England.

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ISBN

• 9781137558633
• 1137558636

LCCN

2015021815

OCLC

919316022

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