Forms of Faith

The well-crafted essays in this interesting collection share the assumption that the diversity of communicative media in early modern cultureincluding literary genres, festive practices, and sacramental ritualshelped cultivate a generalized interest in imagining what the thought of religious pluralization and its irenic potential (p. 2) might look and feel like in an era officially marked by confessional strife. Professor Lowell Gallagher, Studies in English Literature -- .

Jonathan Baldo is Professor of English at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York Isabel Karremann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Wrzburg, Germany -- .

1. Introduction: A world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann Part I: Religious ritual and literary form 2. Shylock celebrates Easter Brooke Conti 3. Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations Phebe Jensen 4. Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho Jacqueline Wylde 5. Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances Christina Wald 6. Edmund Spensers The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration Isabel Karremann Part II: Negotiating confessional conflict 7. Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in Samuel Rowleys When You See Me You Know Me (1605) Brian Walsh 8. Tragic mediation in The White Devil Thomas J. Moretti 9. A deed without a name: evading theology in Macbeth James R. Macdonald 10. Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict Mary A. Blackstone 11. Formal experimentation and the question of Donnes ecumenicalism Alexandra M. Block 12. Foucault, confession, and Donne Joel M. Dodson Afterword: Reformed indifferently Richard Wilson Index -- .