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The Song of Songs , with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase. This book charts the fascination with the mystical marriage, its implication in the various political conflicts of the seventeenth century, and its appeal to seventeenth-century writers, particularly women.
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Front Matter
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'...this is a book of immense value for literary and religious historians alike, subtle in analysis and rigorous in research.' - Sarah Apetrei, Keble College Oxford, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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ELIZABETH CLARKE is Reader in English at Warwick University, UK, where she leads the Perdita Project investigating women's manuscript writing in the Early Modern period.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England
Authors: Elizabeth Clarke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308657
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71411-9Published: 15 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40326-4Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30865-7Published: 15 February 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 265
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Christian Theology, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Early Modern Europe