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...
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-295) and indexes
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 "discreet or religious preachers": John Donne and the late Jacobean Public Sphere; 2 "the indiscretion of that foole": John Knight and the Jacobean Pulpit, 1620-2; 3 "the fishing of whales": John Donne's Sermons, 1620-2; 4 "faire interpretation": The Directions and the Crisis of Censorship; 5 "wise as Serpents, and innocent as Doves": Zeal and Discretion in the Pulpit, 1623-5; 6 "Jesus Wept": The Journey to Spain and Pulpit Lamentation; 7 "blinde buzzards in the choise of a wife": Sermons and the Moral Marketplace
8 "The Lovesick Spouse": Parliament, Patriots, and the Public Sphere9 "Church-quakes": Post-Parliamentary Faultlines; 10 "If the Foundations be Destroyed": Rules of Engagement; 11 "blessed sobriety": John Donne, the Public Sphere, and Caroline Conformity; WORKS CITED; GENERAL INDEX; INDEX TO JOHN DONNE REFERENCES; INDEX TO JOHN DONNE'S SERMONS
