Timothy Rosendale is Assistant Professor of English at
Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
內容簡介:
The Book of Common Prayer is one of the most important and
influential books in English history, but it has received
relatively little attention from literary scholars. This study
seeks to remedy this by attending to the Prayerbook''s importance in
England''s political, intellectual, religious, and literary history.
The first half of the book presents extensive analyses of the Book
of Common Prayer''s involvement in early modern discourses of
nationalism and individualism, and argues that the liturgy sought
to engage and textually reconcile these potentially-competing
cultural impulses. In its second half, Liturgy and Literature
traces these tensions in subsequent works by four major authors -
Sidney, Shakespeare, Milton, and Hobbes - and contends that they
operate within the dialectical parameters laid out in the
Prayerbook decades earlier. Rosendale''s analyses are supplemented
by a brief history of the Book of Common Prayer, and by an appendix
which discusses its contents.
目錄:
Acknowledgments
Note on texts
Introduction
PRELUDEMATTINS: THROUGH 1549
1 The Book of Common Prayer and national identity
2 The Book of Common Prayer and individual identity
INTERLUDE: 1549-1662
3 Representation and authority in Renaissance literature
4 Revolution and representation
POSTLUDEEVENSONG: 1662--PRESENT
Appendix: "THE booke"
Bibliography
Index