Title Conscience in early modern English literature / Abraham Stoll

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half Title; Title page; Imprints page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Thus Conscience; Scenes from Shakespeare; The Theorists of Conscience; The Politics of Conscience; 1 Destructuring: Aquinas, Luther, Perkins; Aquinas and the Scholastic Conscience; Luther; Perkins and the Theorists of Conscience; 2 Spenser's Allegorical Conscience; Despaire and Holinesse; Equity and Justice; 3 Con-science in Macbeth; Act 2 Scene 2 Despair and DisenchantmentThe Uncanny Conscience and Subjectivity; Gunpowder; 4 Casuistry and Antinomianism; Herbert's 'Conscience'; Casuistry; Antinomianism; Two Streams; 5 Public Discourses: Toleration, Revolution, Sovereignty; Liberty of Conscience; Levellers; Conscience in Leviathan; 6 Milton's Expansive Conscience; Paradise Lost; Areopagitica; De Doctrina and Of Civil Power; Reason and Inspiration; Samson Agonistes; Bibliography Summary "Conscience in Early Modern English Literature describes how poetry, theology, and politics intersect in the early modern conscience. In the wake of the Reformation, theologians attempt to understand how the faculty works, poets attempt to capture the experience of being in its grip, and revolutionaries attempt to assert its authority for political action. The result, Abraham Stoll argues, is a dynamic scene of conscience in England, thick with the energies of salvation and subjectivity, and influential in the public sphere of Civil War politics. Stoll explores how Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, and Milton stage the inward experience of conscience. He links these poetic scenes to Luther, Calvin, and English Reformation theology. He also demonstrates how they shape the public discourses of conscience in such places as the toleration debates, among Levellers, and in the prose of Hobbes and Milton. In the literature of the early modern conscience, Protestant subjectivity evolves toward the political subject of modern liberalism"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Conscience in literature. Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century Philosophy in literature. Ethics in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Conscience in literature English literature -- Early modern Ethics in literature Literature and society Philosophy in literature England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108317115 1108317111 9781108291309 1108291309

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