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Author:

Brumbaugh, Barbara, author.

Title:

Apocalyptic history and the Protestant cause in Sir Philip Sidney's revised Arcadia / Barbara Brumbaugh.

Publisher:

ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies),

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 543 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586.--Arcadia.
Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586--Political and social views.
Apocalypse in literature.
Protestantism and literature--History--16th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
England--Religion--16th century.

Notes:

Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Ohio), 1997. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Apocalyptic history, Protestant politics, and allegorical methodology -- In the Revelation commentaries -- Protestant church historiography and Revelation commentaries and the Asia Minor narratives -- The early Asia Minor narratives and the primitive church -- Apocalyptic Arcadia and Elizabethan England -- Feeding upon Urania's "sweet words": overthrowing antichrist through devotion to the Word -- Erasmus in Arcadia -- Cecropia, Amphialus, and the church of antichrist -- Amphialus and the half-reformed Church of England -- The English church under the Tudor queens in Sidney's topical allegory -- Sidney's revised Arcadia as epic and apocalypse: an overview.

Summary:

"This study challenges prevailing critical assumptions concerning Protestantism and the New Arcadia, offering a rereading of Sidney's Arcadia as an apocalyptic allegory centrally concerned with--and rhetorically designed to influence and contribute to--debates on church reform and other religio-political issues specific to Sidney's Elizabethan culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; volume 468

ISBN:

0866985212
9780866985215

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1028611934

LCCN:

2018004287

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)