Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance /
Britton, Dennis Austin,
Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington's Orlando Furioso -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-'turning' Othello and the Location of Christian Identity -- 5. Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage -- Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion.
Britton examines English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger. Through charting the intersections of race, Protestant theology, and literary form, the book intervenes in critical debates about the relationship between racial and religious identity in early modern England, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance.
9780823260836 9780823257171 9780823257157
016723983 Uk
Religion and literature--History--England--16th century.
Conversion in literature.
Christians in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR428 / .B436 2014
Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington's Orlando Furioso -- 4. Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-'turning' Othello and the Location of Christian Identity -- 5. Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage -- Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion.
Britton examines English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger. Through charting the intersections of race, Protestant theology, and literary form, the book intervenes in critical debates about the relationship between racial and religious identity in early modern England, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance.
9780823260836 9780823257171 9780823257157
016723983 Uk
Religion and literature--History--England--16th century.
Conversion in literature.
Christians in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR428 / .B436 2014