{"product_id":"religion-around-john-donne-4-9780271083377","title":"Religion Around John Donne 4","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores the ways in which the religious controversies and beliefs that surrounded John Donne were circulated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReligion Around John Donne\u003c\/i\u003e traces the context for all these titles in Donne’s reading, with a careful scholarship that also serves to highlight the fact that he could be very, very funny. And this, too, is a kind of renewal. Eckhardt makes good on his introduction’s promise to write ‘a book history [that] can demonstrate plenty about broad social contexts’ in uniting manuscript copies of Donne with printed versions, other books held side by side in contemporary libraries, and \u003ci\u003evariora\u003c\/i\u003e from Donne’s contemporaries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Professor Eckhardt is to be congratulated for the excellent approach which he takes to setting Donne in a religious context.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Peter Davidson \u003ci\u003eHeythrop Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An invaluable study for grappling anew with the highly charged and polemical divides in early modern England and the sophisticated nuance of Donne's and his contemporaries’ responses to and critiques of those issues.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jeffrey Johnson \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Eckhardt makes a persuasive case for the ways that Henry Constable’s controversial sonnet of Mariolatry, often attributed to Donne until the late nineteenth century, changes how readers would interpret Donne’s religious verse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ryan Netzley \u003ci\u003eSEL: Studies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This volume is informative, deftly written, and clearly deeply knowledgeable.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Elizabeth Hodgson \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In its thorough approach to neglected but fruitful aspects of Donne’s oeuvre, it recommends itself both as an entry point into Donne’s universe and also as a complement for readers already familiar with it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Philipp Reisner \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Academy of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Interpreting his brief to survey the religion around Donne literally, Eckhardt sets out to examine the religion which surrounded Donne’s works in manuscript collections, Sammelbände (composite volumes of printed texts), private libraries, and bookshops. The result is a triumph: an innovative study which puts religion and book history into conversation with each other, showing ‘religious contexts through bibliographic ones.’ The reader is taken on a riveting journey through a series of libraries and archives, which opens up new perspectives both on Donne (as book-buyer, book-owner, book-binder, and reader) and on the way in which contemporaries and future generations shaped his religious identity in manuscript and print.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Emma Rhatigan \u003ci\u003eModern Language Review (Slavonic \u0026amp; East European)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is sometimes easy to forget the mental and physical footwork that is required to construct even one sentence of bibliographical research, and Eckhardt is to be commended for his excellent and committed collation of information from a vast number of sources in what is an exemplary addition to each of the disciplines he contributes to in his book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Alice Capstick \u003ci\u003eScript \u0026amp; Print\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A tour de force. Weaving together close reading, reception study, and book history, this volume sheds new light on Donne’s writing, its readers, and the complex landscape of early modern religious belief and practice. Expertly navigating archival sources, Eckhardt follows Donne’s works as they travel through a world of religious communion and division, generating and participating in conversations that are as compelling now as they were in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—David Colclough,author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Donne's Professional Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Besides providing new insights into the life and works of John Donne in the context of the religious disputes of his time, \u003ci\u003eReligion Around John Donne \u003c\/i\u003eshows how book history can be written in a scholarly and engaging way. Joshua Eckhardt provides absorbing and exemplary readings of material features in a rich variety of books connected to Donne.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—H. R. Woudhuysen,author of \u003ci\u003eSir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558–1640\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This study of the consummate poet and preacher of the late English Renaissance recovers a religious and literary culture profoundly embodied in the physical labors of scribes, printers, and bibliophile collectors. Here we encounter an intimate history of the material circumstances of knowledge in the premodern world—of paper, ink, and pen—down to the miracles of book preservation and the odds-breaking power of historic library collections to hold the Renaissance together in snapshot form.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Earle Havens,Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReligion Around John Donne\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly realizes the potential of its bibliographical approach. Its focus on the religious texts, in manuscript and print, that Donne and his contemporaries made, collected, and preserved yields fascinating new insights into the role played by religion in Donne’s life and writing. Vividly written, perfectly paced, and beautifully clear, \u003ci\u003eReligion Around John Donne\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest and value to beginners and experts alike.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Hugh Adlington,author of \u003ci\u003eJohn Donne's Books: Reading, Writing and the Uses of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Texts and Conventions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Religion Around Donne’s Poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein a Family Library\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterlude: Mirreus, Crants, and Graius Go\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the Library\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Religious Works Around Donne’s Inscriptions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Religious Verse Around Donne’s Verse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Religious Prose Around Donne’s Prose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Religious Books Around Donne’s Works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400803590487,"sku":"9780271083377","price":40.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-around-john-donne-4-9780271083377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}