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Religion, allegory, and literacy in early modern England, 1560-1640 : the control of the word

John S. Pendergast (Author)
Using as a primary focus the manner in which Protestant and Catholic paradigms of the Word affect the understanding of how meaning manifests itself in material language, this book develops a history of literacy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the middle of the seventeenth century.
Print Book, English, ©2006
Ashgate, Aldershot, ©2006
187 p. ; 24 cm
9780754651475, 0754651479
799848921
Contents: Introduction: reading salvation; Augustine and early modern Literacy; The Control of the Word: Renaissance Exegesis and the Education of the Reader; The 'real' Word of God; The grammar of embodiment and biblical interpretation; John Donne's metaphoric God; Educating gentlemen: allegory, literacy and Spenser's Faerie Queene; Lily, Latin literacy and 'enfranchisement' in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and Two Gentlemen of Verona; Bibliography; Index.