Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton.

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Britton, Dennis Austin [Author]

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9780823260836
9780823257171
9780823257157

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PR428 .B436 2014

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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