Britton, Dennis Austin. Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance

Folger bibliographic ID: 344544
Folger call number: PR428.R46 B65 2014
Folger holdings ID: 495400
Accession Number: 269326

"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"--

Edition

First edition

General notes

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

Item information about Folger PR428.R46 B65 2014

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Extended title: Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton

English literature Religion and literature Conversion in literature Christians in literature Jews in literature Muslims in literature Race in literature Conversion

author: Britton, Dennis Austin
publisher: Fordham University Press