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Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England

Faith in the Language

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Authors:
  1. Jamie H. Ferguson

    1. University of Houston, Houston, USA

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  • Offers analysis of the Sidney Psalter, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and Donne’s Songs and Sonnets
  • Examines the convergence of biblical interpretation and English literature
  • Provides close, literary readings of many poetic texts

Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England

    • Jamie H. Ferguson
    Pages 1-30

  3. Reformation Hermeneutics and the Meaning of English

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Biblical Authority and the Meaning of English in the More-Tyndale Polemics

      • Jamie H. Ferguson
      Pages 33-75

    3. The Roman Inkhorn: Literary and Religious Resistance to Latinism in the English Renaissance

      • Jamie H. Ferguson
      Pages 77-122

  4. Reformation Hermeneutics and Sidneian Poiesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Biblical Hermeneutics and Poiesis in Philip Sidney’s Apology and the Sidney Psalter

      • Jamie H. Ferguson
      Pages 125-165

  5. Reformation Hermeneutics and Post-Petrarchan Poetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Tradition and Tautology in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

      • Jamie H. Ferguson
      Pages 169-205

    3. Tradition and Invention in the Songs and Sonets and Sermons of John Donne

      • Jamie H. Ferguson
      Pages 207-244

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 245-256
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About this book

The expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible. Faith in the Language examines the convergence of biblical interpretation and English literature, from William Tyndale to John Donne, and argues that the groundwork for a newly authoritative literary tradition in early modern England is laid in the discourse of biblical hermeneutics. The period 1525-1611 witnessed a proliferation of English biblical versions, provoking a century-long debate about how and whether the Bible should be rendered in English. These public, indeed institutional accounts of biblical English changed the language: questions about the relation between Scripture and exegetical tradition that shaped post-Reformation hermeneutics bore strange fruit in secular literature that defined itself through varying forms of autonomy vis-a-vis prior tradition.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Houston, Houston, USA

    Jamie H. Ferguson

About the author

Jamie H. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Honors and English at the University of Houston. 

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