Fictions of Conversion : : Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England / / Jeffrey S. Shoulson.
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later t...
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Shoulson, Jeffrey S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fictions of Conversion : Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England / Jeffrey S. Shoulson. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "The Jews Perverted and the Gentiles Converted": Confessions and Conversos -- Chapter 2. "Thy People Shall Be My People": Typology, Gender, and Biblical Converts -- Chapter 3. "The Meaning, Not the Name I Call": Converting the Bible and Homer -- Chapter 4. Alchemies of Conversion: Shakespeare, Jonson, Vaughan, and the Science of Jewish Transmutation -- Chapter 5. Conversion and Enthusiasm: Radical Religion and the Poetics of Paradise Regained -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the act was overturned by his daughter Mary, only to be reinstated at the ascension of her half-sister Elizabeth. Buffeted by political and confessional cross-currents, the English discovered that conversion was by no means a finite, discrete process. In Fictions of Conversion, Jeffrey S. Shoulson argues that the vagaries of religious conversion were more readily negotiated when they were projected onto an alien identity-one of which the potential for transformation offered both promise and peril but which could be kept distinct from the emerging identity of Englishness: the Jew.Early modern Englishmen and -women would have recognized an uncannily familiar religious chameleon in the figure of the Jewish converso, whose economic, social, and political circumstances required religious conversion, conformity, or counterfeiting. Shoulson explores this distinctly English interest in the Jews who had been exiled from their midst nearly three hundred years earlier, contending that while Jews held out the tantalizing possibility of redemption through conversion, the trajectory of falling in and out of divine favor could be seen to anticipate the more recent trajectory of England's uncertain path of reformation. In translations such as the King James Bible and Chapman's Homer, dramas by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, and poetry by Donne, Vaughan, and Milton, conversion appears as a cypher for and catalyst of other transformations-translation, alchemy, and the suspect religious enthusiasm of the convert-that preoccupy early modern English cultures of change. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) American poetry. Christianity and other religions Judaism History 17th century. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Jews in literature History and criticism. Religion and literature England History 17th century. Religious Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Religion. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812244823 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208191 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208191 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812208191/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "The Jews Perverted and the Gentiles Converted": Confessions and Conversos -- Chapter 2. "Thy People Shall Be My People": Typology, Gender, and Biblical Converts -- Chapter 3. "The Meaning, Not the Name I Call": Converting the Bible and Homer -- Chapter 4. Alchemies of Conversion: Shakespeare, Jonson, Vaughan, and the Science of Jewish Transmutation -- Chapter 5. Conversion and Enthusiasm: Radical Religion and the Poetics of Paradise Regained -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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