Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: English Protestant moral theory and regeneration
- Chapter 1 Shame, guilt, and moral character in early modern English Protestant theology and Sir Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- Chapter 2 The three orders of nature, grace, and law in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book II
- Chapter 3 Conformist and puritan moral theory: from Richard Hooker's natural law theory to Richard Sibbes's ethical occasionalism
- Chapter 4 The elect body in pain: Godly fear and sanctification in John Donne's poetry and prose
- Chapter 5 Absent neighbors in George Herbert's “The Church,” or Why Agape becomes Caritas in English Protestant devotional poetry
- Chapter 6 Moral pragmatism in the theology of John Milton and his contemporaries
- Epilogue: theorizing early modern moral selfhood
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: English Protestant moral theory and regeneration
- Chapter 1 Shame, guilt, and moral character in early modern English Protestant theology and Sir Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- Chapter 2 The three orders of nature, grace, and law in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book II
- Chapter 3 Conformist and puritan moral theory: from Richard Hooker's natural law theory to Richard Sibbes's ethical occasionalism
- Chapter 4 The elect body in pain: Godly fear and sanctification in John Donne's poetry and prose
- Chapter 5 Absent neighbors in George Herbert's “The Church,” or Why Agape becomes Caritas in English Protestant devotional poetry
- Chapter 6 Moral pragmatism in the theology of John Milton and his contemporaries
- Epilogue: theorizing early modern moral selfhood
- Notes
- Index
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- Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004