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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankLITURGYANDLITERATUREINTHEMAKINGOFPROTESTANTENGLANDTheBookofCommonPrayerisoneofthemostimportantandinfluentialbooksinEnglishhistory,butithasreceivedrelativelylit-tleattentionfromliteraryscholars.Thisstudyseekstoremedythisbyattendingt
2、othePrayerbook’simportanceinEngland’spolitical,intellectual,religious,andliteraryhistory.ThefirsthalfofthebookpresentsextensiveanalysesoftheBookofCommonPrayer’sinvolve-mentinearlymoderndiscoursesofnationalismandindividualism,andarguesthattheliturgysoughttoengag
3、eandtextuallyrecon-cilethesepotentiallycompetingculturalimpulses.Initssecondhalf,LiturgyandLiteraturetracesthesetensionsinsubsequentworksbyfourmajorauthors–Sidney,Shakespeare,Milton,andHobbes–andcontendsthattheyoperatewithinthedialecticalparameterslaidoutinthe
4、Prayerbookdecadesearlier.Centraltoalltheseculturalnegotiations,bothliturgicalandliterary,isanemphasisonsymbolicrepresentation,inwhichtheconflictbetweencollectiveandindivid-ualauthorityisworkedoutthroughcomplexactsofinterpretation.Rosendale’sanalysesaresupplemen
5、tedbyabriefhistoryoftheBookofCommonPrayer,andbyanappendixwhichdiscussesitscontents.timothyrosendaleisAssistantProfessorofEnglishatSouth-ernMethodistUniversity,Dallas.HisworkhasappearedinvariousjournalsincludingStudiesinEnglishLiterature,RenaissanceQuarterly,an
6、dEarlyModernLiteraryStudies.Thisishisfirstbook.LITURGYANDLITERATUREINTHEMAKINGOFPROTESTANTENGLANDTIMOTHYROSENDALECAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPauloCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,U
7、KPublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521877749©TimothyRosendale2007Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionofrelevantcollectivelicen
8、singagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublishedinprintformat2007ISBN-13978-0-511-35493-9eBook(EBL)ISBN-100-51
