... understanding of-Chaucer. ELAINETv ITLE HANSEN Hami 1to n College Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. By BARBARAKIEFEK LEWAISKI.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xiv + 536 pp. $27.50. Karely...

... Protector Somerset, whose personal Protestantism was not in doubt and who may have been responsible for the Protestant education of his royal nephew. The first result of Somerset’s accession was the repeal of the anti-Protestant Act of Six Articles, the notorious Whip with Six Strings...

... and industry were rewarded-after a long difficult journey, beset by poverty, hard work, misunderstanding, malicious attack. At last this Protestant historian, persecuted by Protestants as well as Tractarians, for the sin of Protestantism, proved his worth. However unorthodox as a Protestant...

...Margaret T. Peischl Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 THEODOR STORM’S NOVELLA DER HERR ETATSRAT A FICTIONAL PROTEST AGAINST PRUSSIA? By MARGARETT. PEISCHL...

...David Parker Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 POPULAR PROTEST IN “A GEST OF ROBYN HODE” By DAVIDPARKER The Robin Hood of the ballads is traditionally regarded as a model...

...-Roman political slave to tyranny as it collides with the institution of African slavery in early modern political debates over property and in pamphlets protesting injustices in the trades in sugar, slaves, and indentured servants. Using narrative digressions to stage a struggle for primacy between...

... transnational position, the first conceiving of the Protestant Ascendancy as neofeudal landlords who transform Irish labor into capitalist wealth, the second characterizing the Anglo-Irish as a cosmopolitan class of professional managers. By regarding these socioeconomic roles as affective dispositions between...

...Toral Jatin Gajarawala A product of the last two decades, Dalit (“untouchable caste”) literature in Hindi has fashioned itself as a modern protest literature, drawing on the cultural and political traditions of other Indian languages and literatures. But Hindi Dalit literature is unique in that its...

...: “secularism.” Melville helps us think secularism not as the extirpation of religion in modernity but as an ensemble of broadly disciplinary interventions, whose aim was both to exalt Protestant Christianity as the authorizing sign for planetary white dominion and to demote theology itself into a practice...

... WELLSSLIGHTS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. xx + 308 pp. $2 1 .00. This substantial book complements other recent works on aspects of Protes- tant tradition in seventeenth-century England such as Barbara Lewalski’s more comprehensive Protestant Poetics. Camille Slights devotes...

... be extinguish’d but by blood” (11, 35-36). Although a contemptuous atheist at heart (11, 66-69), he feigns a burning Catholic zeal and a consequent desire to root out the Protestant heresy by force of arms. Under this pretext he is able to form the Holy League with the support of the French clergy (11...

... undisputed power in Geneva. As a consequence of his prestige in the Protestant city par excellence, his authority over the doctrinal, organizational, and political policies of the churches in France became practically supreme. In his works, therefore, and particularly in his correspond- ence...

..., is the object of the present study. From an examination of some fifty contemporary pamphlets, Protestant and Catholic, French and English, we shall discover that the lurid- ness of Marlowe’s drama, both in action and characterization, stems directly from the luridness of typical Protestant...

... seemed but strangers in my way As he becomes more committed to the Reformation and Protestantism, to reform and protest, Herbert dis- covers that religious poetry will be more fruitful if it is fkesh and un- conventional. But he also finds that old conventions can be an ex- tremely useful...

... Protestants who, if their charges might be somewhat tliscoun tecl becaiisc their unhappy situation niacle them natiiral enemies of I hc old regime, remained nevertheless infliiential in the broad movement of ideas. 111 01 this acids up to a significant study of the reLolutionar) spii it in Fiance...

... conscripted into mythic accounts of American (i.e., Anglo-Protestant and Anglophone US) exceptionalism that locate the nation’s origins in Puritan New England. Like any good historical irony, however, Mather’s authorship of a tract seeking to convert the Hispanophone populations south of Massachusetts...

... Settlement and Locke : “In all free Nations, I take the proper Definition of Law to be the Will of the Majority of those who have the Property in Land . . .” (p. 164). Both in setting forth Protestant Ireland’s grievances and in protesting his rights as an Englishman, he anticipates the American...

... in a continual state of flux or dialec- I To be precise, as Marshall Brown has remarked to me, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was republished in 1958, a significant intellectual event. Silver 0 Review 523 tic, each...

... on traditional sent imcntalists’ overt critique of the status quo, my friend, an astute historian, indicated that, for her, any black author’s sentimentality was too idcologicnlly rcniinis- cent of Booker T. Washingtonian accommodation to constitutcb any genuine racial protest literature...