John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit

by Jeanne Shami

The sermons of John Donne are seen to embody the tensions and pressure on public religious discourse 1621 - 25.

This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period; while they are in no way "typical" of any particular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859917894
• ISBN13: 9780859917896
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"