Confession and memory in early modern English literature : penitential remains / Paul D. Stegner (Associate Professor, California Polytechnic University, USA).

Author
Stegner, Paul D., 1978- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
viii, 232 pages ; 23 cm.

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Subject(s)
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.
ISBN
  • 9781137558633
  • 1137558636
LCCN
2015021815
OCLC
919316022
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