Exploring the Politics of Transcendentalism in the English Poetry
A Literary Theological Analysis
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This book investigates how an evolving concept of transcendentalism in early modem England, influenced by Reformation and counter-Reformation theology, created new ways of responding effectively and philosophically to emerging articulations of national identity in British devotional poetry. My book focuses on a series of politically disruptive moments in the seventeenth century - from the residual trauma of the Protestant Reformation to the Civil War of the 1640's - that troubled England's developing sense of national identity. In the shadow of these troubles, devotional poets reworked ideas o...
This book investigates how an evolving concept of transcendentalism in early modem England, influenced by Reformation and counter-Reformation theology, created new ways of responding effectively and philosophically to emerging articulations of national identity in British devotional poetry. My book focuses on a series of politically disruptive moments in the seventeenth century - from the residual trauma of the Protestant Reformation to the Civil War of the 1640's - that troubled England's developing sense of national identity. In the shadow of these troubles, devotional poets reworked ideas of transcendence that they had inherited from medieval Catholicism to provide a sense of national cohesion in the midst of a changing political landscape.
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