Inventing Polemic

An investigation into the contexts of print, polemic, and religious debate in Renaissance literature.

Autorentext

Jesse M. Lander is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include Renaissance Drama, the Reformation, and Shakespeare Studies.

Zusammenfassung
Jesse Lander investigates the contexts of print, polemic, and religious debate in Renaissance literature. Wide-ranging in its consideration of literary and polemical texts, this study is an important contribution to the history of the book and the wider political and religious contexts of early modern literature.

Inhalt

Introduction: The disorder of books; 1. Foxe's Books of Martyrs: printing and popularizing the Actes and Monuments; 2. Martin Marprelate and the fugitive text; 3. 'Whole Hamlets': Q1, Q2, and the work of distinction; 4. Printing Donne: poetry and polemic in the early seventeenth century; 5. Areopagitica and 'The True Warfaring Christian'; 6. Institutionalizing polemic: the rise and fall of Chelsea College; Epilogue: Polite learning.