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German literature --- Reformation in literature. --- Reformation --- History and criticism

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Reforming French Culture is a ground-breaking work on the literary genre of Reformation satire -- colloquial, obscene, scatological -- designed to mock the excesses as well as the essence of the Roman Catholic rite and hierarchy. Enticingly, Hoffmann proposes that while romance, with its episodic, heroic narrative, is the literary genre of Counter-Reformation, satire is the genre of Reformation. This minor category of Renaissance French literature is an unstudied continent that plays a key role, not only in French literature, but also in French history, and in the evolution of French culture more generally. From this deceptively small focus, the volume opens up huge vistas: on the Reformation, on French history, and on the symbiosis of spirituality and estrangement to which it views modern French culture as heir. Rather than using literature to illustrate history, or contextualizing literature through historical background, this book brings literary understanding (what satire is and what it does) to bear on historical understanding. Situated at the crossroads of religion, literature, and cultural history, it explores how France, in this period, became a culturally Protestant country while remaining confessionally Catholic. --

French literature --- Littérature française --- Reformation in literature. --- Réforme --- Counter-Reformation in literature. --- Contre-Réforme et littérature. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Dans la littérature. --- Christian church history --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1599 --- Reformation in literature --- Counter-Reformation in literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature française --- Réforme --- Contre-Réforme et littérature. --- Dans la littérature.

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Allegory --- Christianity in literature --- Reformation in literature --- Religion in literature --- Shakespeare, William,

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Christian church history --- Dutch literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- Reformation in literature --- History and criticism --- 839.3 "15" --- -Reformation in literature --- Flemish literature --- Nederlandse literatuur--?"15" --- Reformation in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 471 --- Kerkliederen: theorie en wetenschappelijke vorsing --- 839.3 "15" Nederlandse literatuur--?"15" --- 751 --- Theorie van proza en poëzie - Geschiedenis --- Dutch literature - 1500-1800 - History and criticism

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This study takes a fresh look at the abundant scenarios of disguise in early modern prose fiction and suggests reading them in the light of the contemporary religio-political developments. More specifically, it argues that Elizabethan narratives adopt aspects of the heated Eucharist debate during the Reformation, including officially renounced notions like transubstantiation, to negotiate culturally pressing concerns regarding identity change. Drawing on the rich field of research on the adaptation of pre-Reformation concerns in Anglican England, the book traces a cross-fertilisation between the Reformation and the literary mode of romance. The study brings together topics which are currently being strongly debated in early modern studies: the turn to religion, a renewed interest in aesthetics, and a growing engagement with prose fiction. Narratives which are discussed in detail are William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, Robert Greene's Pandosto and Menaphon, Philip Sidney's Old and New Arcadia, and Thomas Lodge's Rosalynd and A Margarite of America, George Gascoigne's Steele Glas, John Lyly's Euphues: An Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, Barnabe Riche's Farewell, Greene's A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, and Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller.

English fiction --- Disguise in literature. --- Transubstantiation in literature. --- Lord's Supper in literature. --- Reformation in literature. --- History and criticism. --- British Literature. --- Early Modern Literature. --- Eucharist Debate. --- Prose Fiction.