Becoming Christian : : Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance / / Dennis Austin Britton.
Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire rel...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Not Turning the Ethiope White
- 1. “The Baptiz’d Race”
- 2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene
- 3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality
- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance
- 5. Reproducing Christians
- Afterword. A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index