Enigma and revelation in Renaissance English literature : essays presented to Eilén Ní Chuilleanáin.

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Imprint:Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, 2012.
Description:246 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8863209
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Other authors / contributors:Cooney, Helen, 1962-
ISBN:9781846822810 (hbk.)
1846822815 (hbk.)
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. 'Let se who dare make up the reste': fear and the interpretation of Skelton's Speke Parott
  • 2. The lady loves her will: riddling in The marriage of Sir Gawain
  • 3. Anne Lock's anonymous friend: A meditation of a penitent sinner and the problem of ascription
  • 4. 'A certaine disgracing': resonances of a Renaissance word
  • 5. Facie ad Faciem: reader, protagonist, and self-reflection in Spenser's Legend of Temperance
  • 6. 'This concealed man': Spenser, Ireland and Ormond(?) in Shakespeare's As you like it
  • 7. The enigma of divine revelation in Tourneur's the Atheist's tragedy
  • 8. Decoding landscape and fertility in early modern travels to Palestine
  • 9. Ignorance is iniquity: the arcana imperii in the sermons of John Donne
  • 10. Millennialism and the renewal of nature: Thomas Fairfax, the Diggers and Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House'
  • 11. 'Lycidas' (1637) and timely reading: some observations on John Milton and Histories of Ireland (1633)
  • 12. 'Very far from being dark and affectedly mysterious': women, philosophy and the interpretation of Genesis 1-3 in seventeenth-century England
  • Index