{"product_id":"betwixt-jest-and-earnest-9781442651432","title":"Betwixt Jest and Earnest","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift are among the best prose satirists in a remarkably rich literary era. Focusing on these key figures, ‘\u003cem\u003eBetwixt Jest and Earnest\u003c\/em\u003e’ examines the theory and practice of religious prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Recognizing the difficulties inherent in attempting to transform unimaginative animadversion into effective satire, it analyses the ways in which Marprelate’s tracts, Milton’s anti-prelatical satires, Marvell’s \u003cem\u003eThe Rehearsal Transpros’d\u003c\/em\u003e, and Swift’s \u003cem\u003eA Tale of a Tub\u003c\/em\u003e variously resolve the decorum of religious satire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Although the study is not specifically an intellectual history or a rigid definition of religious attitudes towards jest, it does bring together basic symptoms of altering sensibilities in the period. Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift represent diverse religious dispositions, but they share a similar satiric vision. Each recognizes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151270736215,"sku":"9781442651432","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442651432.jpg?v=1762960652","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/betwixt-jest-and-earnest-9781442651432","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}