Liturgy And Literature In The Making Of Protestant England Eng Rosendale Timothy by Rosendale Timothy. 9780521877749, 0521877741 instant download after payment.

Cаmbridge Univеrsity Prеss, 2007 - 248 p. ISBN: 0521877741The Book of Prevalent Prayer is with essentially the most significant and influential books in English history, however it has received somewhat small attention from literary scholars. This study seeks to remedy this by attending towards the prayerbook’s significance in England’s political, intellectual, religious, and literary history. Thest half with the book presents extensive analyses with the Book of Prevalent Prayer’s involvement in early contemporary discourses of nationalism and individualism, and argues that the liturgy sought to engage and textually reconcile these potentially competing cultural impulses. In its second half, Liturgy and Literature traces these tensions in subsequent works by key authors – Sidney, Shakespeare, Milton, and Hobbes – and contends that they operate inside the dialectical parameters laid out inside the prayerbook decades earlier. Rosendale’s analyses are supplemented by a brief history with the Book of Prevalent Prayer, and by an appendix which discusses its contents.