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Author Pendergast, John S., 1963-

Title Religion, allegory, and literacy in early modern England, 1560-1640 : the control of the word / John Pendergast
Published Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2006]
©2006

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Description 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction : reading salvation -- 2. Augustine and early modern literacy -- 3. The control of the word : Renaissance exegesis and the education of the reader -- 4. The "real" word of God -- 5. The grammar of embodiment and biblical interpretation -- 6. John Donne's metaphoric God -- 7. Educating gentlemen : allegory, literacy and Spenser's Faerie queene -- 8. Lily, Latin literacy and "enfranchisement" in Shakespeare's Love's labour lost and Two gentlement of Verona
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-181) and index
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Christian literature, English -- History and criticism.
Social control -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Social control -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Literacy -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Literacy -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Genre/Form Allegories.
LC no. 2004019640
ISBN 0754651479 hardback alkaline paper