Author: Anne Ashley Davenport File Type: pdf The historiography of English Catholicism has grown enormously in the last generation, led by scholars such as Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Stefania Tutino, and others. In Suspicious Moderate, Anne Ashley Davenport makes a significant contribution to that literature by presenting a long overdue intellectual biography of the influential English Catholic theologian Francis a Sancta Clara (15981680). Born into a Protestant family in Coventry at the end of the sixteenth century, Sancta Clara joined the Franciscan order in 1617. He played key roles in reviving the English Franciscan province and in the efforts that were sponsored by Charles I to reunite the Church of England with Rome. In his voluminous Latin writings, he defended moderate Anglican doctrines, championed the separation of church and state, and called for state protection of freedom of conscience. Suspicious Moderate offers the first detailed analysis of Sancta Claras works. In addition to his notorious Deus, natura, gratia (1634), Sancta Clara wrote a comprehensive defense of episcopacy (1640), a monumental treatise on ecumenical councils (1649), and a treatise on natural philosophy and miracles (1662). By carefully examining the context of Sancta Claras ideas, Davenport argues that he aimed at educating English Roman Catholics into a depoliticized and capacious Catholicism suited to personal moral reasoning in a pluralistic world. In the course of her research, Davenport also discovered that Philip Scot, the author of the earliest English discussions of Hobbes (a treatise published in 1650), was none other than Sancta Clara. Davenport demonstrates how Sancta Clara joined the effort to fight Hobbess Erastianism by carefully reflecting on Hobbess pioneering ideas and by attempting to find common ground with him, no matter how slight.**** ** hrReview Christopher Davenport, or Sancta Clara, is a figure that has slipped to the margins of many treatments of English Catholicism. This book does an excellent job in making the case for his recovery. Suspicious Moderate The Life and Writings of Francis a Sancta Clara (15981680) is a significant and worthwhile contribution to the historiographies of English Catholicism, the politics of seventeenth-century England, and early modern philosophy and natural science. Jeffrey Collins, Queens University Anne Davenport has opened a new window onto the intellectual and spiritual history of England in the seventeenth century. Her passionate account of Francis a Sancta Claras life and ideas restores religious discourse and controversyCatholic and not just Protestant or Puritanto the world that witnessed the emergence of the Scientific Revolution. It is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the mentality of that turbulent period. Steven P. Marrone, Tufts University This is the full-length scholarly study of Sancta Claras life and writings that early modern historians have needed for so long. Richly contextualized, painstakingly researched, and brimming with fascinating insights, this book offers a comprehensive and convincing portrait of the career and ideas of one of the most intriguing religious figures of the seventeenth century. Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield About the Author Anne Ashley Davenport is a lecturer in the Boston College Honors Program. She is the author of Descartess Theory of Action and Measure of a Different Greatness The Intensive Infinite, 12501650.

Author: Maia McAleavey File Type: pdf The courtship plot dominates accounts of the Victorian novel, but this innovative study turns instead to a narrative phenomenon that upends its familiar conventions the bigamy plot. In hundreds of novels, plays, and poems published in Victorian Great Britain, husbands or wives thought dead suddenly reappear to their newly remarried spouses. In the sensation fiction of Braddon and Collins, these bigamous revelations lead to bribery, arson, and murder, but the same plot operates in the canonical fiction of Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, and Hardy. These authors employ bigamy plots to destabilize the apparently conventional form and values of the Victorian novel. By close examination of this plot, including an index of nearly 300 bigamy novels, Maia McAleavey makes the case for a historical approach to narrative, one that is grounded in the legal and social changes of the period but that runs counter to our own formal and cultural expectations.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith File Type: pdf Oliver Goldsmiths hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novels popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships.New to this edition is an introduction by Robert L. Mack that examines the reasons for the novels enduring popularity, as well as the critical debates over whether it is a straightforward novel of sentiment or a satire on the social and economic inequalities of the period and the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody. This edition also includes a new, up-to-date bibliography and expanded notes, and contains reprints of Arthur Friedmans authoritative Oxford English Novels text of the corrected first edition of 1766.ReviewNovel by Oliver Goldsmith, published in two volumes in 1766. The story, a portrait of village life, is narrated by Dr. Primrose, the title character, whose family endures many trials--including the loss of most of their money, the seduction of one daughter, the destruction of their home by fire, and the vicars incarceration--before all is put right in the end. The novels idealization of rural life, sentimental moralizing, and melodramatic incidents are countered by a sharp but good-natured irony. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of LiteratureAbout the AuthorRobert L. Mack has edited a number of volumes for Oxford Worlds Classics, including Burneys The Wanderer, and Oriental Tales. He is the author of Thomas Gray A Life.

Author: Valeria Céspedes Musso File Type: pdf Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts provides an analysis of collective phenomena, specifically mass visions of the Virgin Mary, from a psychoanalytical perspective. It draws from Jungs compensation theoretical model with the aim of merging depth-psychology and historical material from the Zeitoun case. Offering an original interpretation of this phenomenon from a Jungian psychological perspective, the book provides stimulating insights to any person interested in these supernatural events, whether general readers with active curiosity or scholars with broad intellectual interests. A review of the literature points to a prevailing socio-political approach to examining visions of the Virgin Mary, while a psychoanalytical approach is generally lacking. Musso draws from Jungs compensation theoretical model in Flying Saucers with the aim of merging depth-psychology and historical material. Common themes and symbols are extracted and interpreted from the empirical material and analyzed along with Egyptian social and political data. The book concludes with a discussion on how depth psychological principles grounded in empirical and historical material could be applied in order to explicate cases of mass visions. An original interdisciplinary exploration of cultural phenomena, Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts will be of value to academics and students in the fields of psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, political science, and religious studies. This book will also be of interest among Jungian scholars and practitioners in applications of depth psychology to cultural phenomena.Review Some phenomena are so extraordinary that it can be difficult to know how to approach them in a balanced yet illuminating way and the mass visions of the Virgin Mary at Zeitoun, witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people over a period of about eighteen months, certainly come into that category. In this book, Musso takes on such a challenge, skilfully grounding her Jungian hermeneutic in a deeply informed and conscientious engagement with political, economic, and cultural realities. Almost as extraordinary as her subject matter itself are the courage, creativity, open-mindedness, and rigorous, level-headed scholarship with which she navigates it. An impressive achievement. Professor Roderick Mainb, University of Essex, UK.b About the Author Valeria Cespedes Musso is an analyst in training at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich, Kusnacht **** and an independent researcher and lives in Frankfurt, Germany.