The Trouble with Literature

by Victoria Kahn

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered English literature, as scholars have often done, Victoria Kahn claims that literature helped undo the Reformation, with implications for both poetry and belief.

Ultimately, literature in the Reformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198808747
• ISBN13: 9780198808749
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"