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BIBLICAL READINGS AND LITERARY WRITINGS IN EARLY MODERN – ENGLAND, 1558 1625 Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, – 1558 1625 VICTORIA BROWNLEE 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©VictoriaBrownlee2018 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2018 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2017952325 ISBN 978–0–19–881248–7 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. ThispublicationreceivedasubventionfromthePublications FundofNationalUniversityofIreland,Galway,forimageand indexingcosts. For Andy, with love Acknowledgements The research for this book began during my doctoral work at Queen’s University Belfast. This early research was generously funded by an AHRC Doctoral Award and enriched by discussions with staff and post- graduatesintheSchoolofEnglish.IamdeeplygratefultoAdrianStreete whowasanoutstandingsupervisortomydoctoralresearch.In2007Iwas privileged to be one of four students in an MA module convened by Adrianonliteratureandreligion.Icantracetheideaforthisprojecttothat class,andtomyengagementwithAdrian’simportantresearch.Sincethen, IhavebenefitedenormouslyfromAdrian’swisdom,advice,andreadings, and I am grateful for his continuing support and interest in my work. Mark Burnett and Ramona Wray were my chief encouragers as an undergraduate at Queen’s. Their classes were a joy, and I was fortunate tobenefitfromtheirinsightthroughoutmygraduatestudies. Without my year as an Irish Research Council post-doctoral fellow at UniversityCollegeDublinthisbookmightyetbeunfinished.Duringthat time Danielle Clarke was an enthusiastic and inspiring mentor, and an endless source of knowledge and encouragement. Danielle’s rigorous engagementwiththeargumentsinthisbook,andherprofessionaladvice, support, and friendship have been instrumental to the completion of thisproject. I am grateful for the support of my colleagues in the Department of English at NUI Galway, especially Dan Carey, Marie-Louise Coolahan, Lindsay Reid, Sean Ryder, and Elizabeth Tilley, as well as for conversa- tionswithcolleaguesfurtherafield,particularlyDermotCavanagh,Laura Gallagher, Jane Grogan, Stephen O’Neill, Michele Osherow, Emma Rhatigan, and Shelley Troope. I would also like to thank warmly the two anonymous readers at Oxford University Press for the considerable time invested in reading and commenting on these pages. This book is betterfortheirsuggestions. I am thankful for the assistance of the fantastic editors and staff at Oxford University Press, and to the University of Chicago Press for permission to reproduce material that appeared in ‘Literal and Spiritual Births: Mary as Mother in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing’, Renaissance Quarterly 68.4 (2015): 1297–1326, in Chapter5 of this book(©2015RenaissanceSocietyofAmerica.Allrightsreserved). viii Acknowledgements Mydeepestthanksareowedtomyfamily.Mymum,RobertaBrownlee, impresseduponmetheimportanceofreadingatayoungage,andprovided theresourcesformelearn.DavidBrownlee,MatthewBrownlee,Stephen Carroll, and Adeline and Roy Fleming have, in different ways, inquired abouttheprogressofthisprojectfaithfully,andNaomiReaneyhaslistened and encouraged on more occasions than I can recall. My greatest debt is to Andy Carroll, who has cheered, consoled, discussed, and distracted sincethebeginning,andwhosesupportforthisbookhasbeenunwavering. To Reuben and Martha, you have provided joy and perspective in more waysthanyouknow. VictoriaBrownlee Contents ListofIllustrations xi NotetotheReader xiii Introduction 1 1. ‘Theengraftedword’:ReadingandReceivingtheScriptures inEarlyModernEngland 14 2. ‘OurKingSalomon’:BiblicalTypologyandtheKingship ofSolomoninTudorandStuartEngland 49 3. ATaleofTwoJobs:ReadingSuffering,Providence,and RestorationinKingLeirandKingLear 79 4. ‘Bymostesweeteandcomfortableallegories’:Discerning SpiritualSignsintheSongofSongs 113 5. TypologiesofMarianMaternity:LiteralandSpiritualBirth inSeventeenth-CenturyWomen’sWriting 143 6. ReadingRevelations:FiguringtheEndinPost-Reformation LiteraryCulture 169 Afterword 211 SelectBibliography 215 IndexLocorum 247 Index 249
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