Scholars of English and comparative literature look not only at the culture and literature of specific sub-populations in early modern England, but also at the relationship of religion to
processes of secularization under way at the time. The topics include Marian verse as politically oppositional poetry in Elizabethan England, performance and Parshanut: The Historie of Jacob
and Esau, biblical and rabbinic intertextuality in George Herbert’s ＂The Collar＂ and ＂The Pearl,＂ some literary and historiographical challenges in reading funeral sermons for early modern
English women, and the language of tragic community in King Lear. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
