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Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious identities. Whereas Catholicism had asserted that Christian identity begins with baptism, numerous theologians in the Church of England denied the necessity of baptism and instead treated Christian identity as a racial characteristic passed from parents to their children. The church thereby developed a theology that both transformed a nation into a Christian race and created skepticism about the possibility of conversion. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation. Britton intervenes in critical debates about the intersections of race and religion, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. Examining English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harrington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger, Becoming Christian demonstrates how a theology of race altered a nation’s imagination and literary landscape.

English literature --- Religion and literature --- Conversion in literature. --- Christians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Baptism. --- Church of England. --- Edmund Spenser. --- English literature. --- Jews. --- Muslims. --- Race. --- Romance. --- William Shakespeare. --- conversion.

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Indecorous Thinking is a study of artifice at its most conspicuous: it argues that early modern writers turned to figures of speech like simile, antithesis, and periphrasis as the instruments of a particular kind of thinking unique to the emergent field of vernacular poesie. The classical ideal of decorum described the absence of visible art as a precondition for rhetoric, civics, and beauty: speaking well meant speaking as if off-the-cuff. Against this ideal, Rosenfeld argues that one of early modern literature's richest contributions to poetics is the idea that indecorous art—artifice that rings out with the bells and whistles of ornamentation—celebrates the craft of poetry even as it expands poetry’s range of activities. Rosenfeld details a lost legacy of humanism that contributes to contemporary debates over literary studies’ singular but deeply ambivalent commitment to form. Form, she argues, must be reexamined through the legacy of figure. Reading poetry by Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth alongside pedagogical debates of the period and the emergence of empiricism, with its signature commitment to the plain style, Rosenfeld offers a robust account of the triumphs and embarrassments that attended the conspicuous display of artifice. Drawing widely across the arts of rhetoric, dialectic, and poetics, Indecorous Thinking offers a defense of the epistemological value of form: not as a sign of the aesthetic but as the source of a particular kind of knowledge we might call poetic.

English language --- Figures of speech --- Figures of speech in literature. --- English poetry --- Rhetoric. --- Early works to 1800. --- History and criticism. --- Decorum. --- Edmund Spenser. --- Eloquence. --- Epistemology. --- Figures of Speech. --- Form. --- Mary Wroth. --- Philip Sidney. --- Style. --- rhetoric.

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Exploring the boundaries between poetry and history on three of England's epic literary works, Galbraith argues that they enter into a dialogue with classical and contemporary predecessors with implications for understanding the English Renaissance.

English poetry --- Literature and history --- Historical poetry, English --- History and criticism. --- History --- Spenser, Edmund, --- Epic poetry, English --- Epic poetry, Latin --- Imitation in literature. --- Renaissance --- History and criticism --- Roman influences. --- Appreciation --- Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) --- England. --- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) --- Faerie queen (Spenser, Edmund) --- Faery queen (Spenser, Edmund) --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra

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Using concepts from queer theory and close readings of images and allusions in these texts, Loving in Verse demonstrates the importance of homoeroticism to an examination of poetic influence. A discussion of the theories of poetic influence from four twentieth-century writers (T.S. Eliot, Harold Bloom, Roland Barthes, and Frank O'Hara) concludes Guy-Bray's analysis."--Jacket. "Loving in Verse examines how three poets present their relationship to their most important predecessors, beginning with Dante's use of Virgil and Statius in the Divine Comedy, moving on to Spenser's use of medieval English poets in the Faerie Queene, and finally addressing Hart Crane's use of Whitman in The Bridge. In each case, Guy-Bray shows how the younger poet presents himself and the older poet as part of a male couple. He goes on to demonstrate how male couples are, in fact, found throughout these poems, and while some are indeed familial or hostile, many are romantic or sexual.

LITERARY CRITICISM --- Poetry --- Homosexuality in literature --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Poetry. --- Dante Alighieri, --- Spenser, Edmund, --- Crane, Hart, --- History and criticism. --- Criticism --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy --- Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) --- Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) --- Bridge (Crane, Hart) --- Cumégia (Dante Alighieri) --- Divine comedy (Dante Alighieri) --- Divina comedia (Dante Alighieri) --- Commedia (Dante Alighieri) --- Comedy (Dante Alighieri) --- Poema sacro (Dante Alighieri) --- Comedia (Dante Alighieri) --- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) --- Faerie queen (Spenser, Edmund) --- Faery queen (Spenser, Edmund)

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This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet, historian, and figure of controversy.

Raleigh, Walter, --- Spenser, Edmund, --- Immerito, --- Spencer, Edmund, --- Spenser, Edmond, --- R., W. --- Ralegh, Walter, --- Raleĭ, Uolter, --- Rauleigh, Walter, --- Rawleigh, Walter, --- Rawley, Walter, --- W. R. --- Friends and associates. --- Literature --- Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance --- Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 --- Cynthia holograph. --- Edmund Spenser. --- Elizabeth's reign. --- Ireland. --- Sir Walter Raleigh's poem. --- The Nymph's Reply. --- disputed authorship. --- literary legacy. --- mutability. --- patrilineal imperatives. --- sovereignty.