Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton.
2014
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Title
Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton.
Edition
First edition.
Published
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Description
xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"Examines early modern English literary representations of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity alongside English translations of Calvin's writings, polemical writings, treaties on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons. Demonstrates that the development of a theology of race in post-Reformation England helped resolved doctrinal controversies about baptism"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Not Turning the Ethiope White
1. "The Baptiz'd Race"
2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene
3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington's Orlando Furioso
4. Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-'turning' Othello and the Location of Christian Identity
5. Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage
Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion.
1. "The Baptiz'd Race"
2. Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene
3. Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington's Orlando Furioso
4. Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-'turning' Othello and the Location of Christian Identity
5. Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage
Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State).
Item Details
Call number
PR428.R46 B65 2014
Folger-specific note
Inserted: note of transmissal from author.
Folger accession
269326