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Creator
Date
2014
Location
New York
New York (State)
United States
New York (State)
United States
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xi, 259 pages
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 344544
Folger call number: PR428.R46 B65 2014
Folger holdings ID: 495400
Accession Number: 269326
Folger call number: PR428.R46 B65 2014
Folger holdings ID: 495400
Accession Number: 269326
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"--
Notes
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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Also known as
Extended title: Becoming Christian : race, reformation, and early modern English romance / Dennis Austin Britton
Subjects
Related names
author: Britton, Dennis Austin
publisher: Fordham University Press
publisher: Fordham University Press