Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England Tales of Turning /

• Main Author: Shinn, Abigail (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; British literature.; Theater-History.; Christianity.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Theatre History.

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Convert and the Book
• Chapter Two: Crafting the Convert
• Chapter 3: Narrative Topographies and the Geographies of Conversion
• Chapter 4: Corporeal Rhetoric: Perception and Proof in the Conversion Narrative
• Bibliography.