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John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit

John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859917896
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 03/11/2003
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
The sermons of John Donne are seen to embody the tensions and pressure on public religious discourse 1621 - 25. This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period; while they are in no way "typical" of any particular preaching agenda or style, they articulate these crises in their most complex forms and expose fault lines in the late JacobeanChurch. The study is framed by Donne's two most pointed contributions to the public sphere: his sermon defending James I's Directions to Preachers and his first sermon preached before Charles I in 1625. These two sermons emerge from the crises of controversy, censorship, and identity that converged in the late Jacobean period, and mark Donne's clearest professional interventions in the public debate about the nature and direction of the Church of England. In them, Donne interrogates the boundaries of the public sphere and of his conformity to the institutions, authorities, and traditions governing public debate in that sphere, modelling for his audience an actively engagedconformist identity. Professor JEANNE SHAMI teaches in the Department of English at the University of Regina.
"Discreet or religious preachers" - John Donne and the late Jacobean public sphere; "the indiscretion of that foole" - John Knight and the Jacobean pulpit, 1620-22; "the fishing of whales" - John Donne's sermons, 1620-22; "faire interpretation" - the "Directions" and the crisis of censorship; "wise as Serpents and innocent as Doves" - zeal and discretion in the pulpit, 1623-35; "Jesus wept" - the journey to Spain and pulpit lamentation; "blinde buzzards in the choise of a wife" - sermons and the moral marketplace; "the lovesick spouse" - Parliament, patriots and the public sphere; "Church-quakes" - post-Parliamentary fault lines; "if the foundations be destroyed" - rules of engagement; "blessed sobriety" - John Donne, the public sphere and Caroline conformity.

Jeanne Shami (Royalty Account)

With this most admirable and insightful study, Shami succeeds in illuminating a short but overwhelmingly significant period in English history. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * Exhaustively researched, intelligently arranged, and cogently argued. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY * A major achievement in Donne studies. [...] The scholarship is impeccable. * STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE * A painstaking and highly nuanced account of [Donne's] religious and political evolution during the period in question.[...] Clearly written, well organised, thoroughly documented in both primary and secondary sources, beautifully indexed, and handsomely produced.[...] This very fine series. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *

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