LITERATURE AND THE SCOTTISH REFORMATION by David George Mullan, Crawford Gribben (Editor) ( 9780754667155 )

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LITERATURE AND THE SCOTTISH REFORMATION

By:

David George Mullan, Crawford Gribben (Editor)

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0754667154

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Pub. date:

28 April, 2009

Series:

St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Pages:

278

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Throughout the twentieth century Scottish literary studies was dominated by a critical consensus addressing the contemporary anti-Catholic atmosphere which resulted in a re-reading of the Reformation. This book contains essays that show that such a consensus appears untenable in light research and a detailed survey of Scottish literature.

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Throughout the twentieth century Scottish literary studies was dominated by a critical consensus that critiqued contemporary anti-Catholic by advancing a re-reading of the Reformation. This consensus understood that Scotland's rich medieval culture had been replaced with an anti-aesthetic tyranny of life and letters. As a result, Scottish literature has consistently been defined in opposition to the Calvinism to which it frequently returns. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such a consensus appears increasingly untenable in light both of recent research and a more detailed survey of Scottish literature. This collection launches a full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between literature and reformation in early modern Scotland. Previous scholarship in this area has tended to dismiss the literary value of the writing of the period - largely as a reaction to its regular theological interests. Instead the essays in this volume reinforce recent work that challenges the received scholarly consensus by taking these interests seriously.This volume argues for the importance of this religiously orientated writing, through the adoption of a series of interdisciplinary approaches. Arranged chronologically, the collection concentrates on major authors and texts while engaging with a number of contemporary critical issues and so highlighting, for example, writing by women in the period. It addresses the concerns of historians and theologians who have routinely accepted the established reading of this period of literary history in Scotland and offers a radically new interpretation of the complex relationships between literature and religious reform in early modern Scotland.

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