附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-295) and indexes.
"Discreet or religious preachers"" John Donne and the late Jacobean Public sphere -- "The indiscretion of that foole" : John Knight and the Jacobean pulpit, 1620-2 -- "The fishing of whales" : John Donne's sermons, 1620-2 -- "Faire interpretation" : the directions and the crisis of censorship -- "Wise as serpents, and innocent as doves" : zeal and discretion in the pulpit, 1623-5 -- "Jesus wept" : the journey to Spain and pulpit lamentation -- "Blinde buzzards in the choise of a wife" : sermonds and the moral marketplace -- "The lovesick spouse" : parliament, patriots, and the public sphere -- "Church-quakes" : post-parliamentary faultlines -- "If the foundations be destroyed" : rules of engagement -- "Blessed sobriety" : John donne, the public sphere, and Caroline Conformity.
摘要:This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period.
