Enigma and revelation in Renaissance English literature : essays presented to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin / Helen Cooney and Mark S. Sweetnam, editors.
| Other author | Cooney, Helen, 1962- |
| Other author | Sweetnam, Mark S. |
| Other author | Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan, 1942- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, ©2012. |
| Description | 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 'Let se who dare make up the reste': fear and the interpretation of Skelton's Speke Parott / John Scattergood -- The lady loves her will: riddling in The marriage of Sir Gawain / Erin Sebo -- Anne Lock's anonymous friend: A meditation of a penitent sinner and the problem of ascription / Deirdre Serjeantson -- 'A certaine disgracing': resonances of a Renaissance word / Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin -- Facie ad Faciem: reader, protagonist, and self-reflection in Spenser's Legend of Temperance / Helen Cooney -- 'This concealed man': Spenser, Ireland and Ormond (?) in Shakespeare's As you like it / Thomas Herron -- The enigma of divine revelation in Tourneur's The Atheist's tragedy / Rory Loughnane -- Decoding landscape and fertility in early modern travels to Palestine / Paris O'Donnell -- Ignorance is iniquity: the arcana imperii in the sermons of John Donne / Mark S. Sweetnam -- Millennialism and the renewal of nature: Thomas Fairfax, the Diggers and Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House' / Crawford Gribben -- 'Lycidas' (1637) and timely reading: some observations on John Milton and Histories of Ireland (1633) / W.J. McCormack -- 'Very far from being dark and affectedly mysterious': women, philosophy and the interpretation of Genesis 1-3 in seventeenth-century England / John Flood. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781846822810 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1846822815 (hbk.) |