Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters

Greg Miller, Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6409-4 (ISBN)

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The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (1593–1633) and Edward Herbert (1583–1648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters. This volume argues that in their lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness. -- .

George Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together. This collection explores connections between the full range of the brothers’ writings and activities, despite the apparent differences both in what they wrote and in how they lived their lives. More specifically, the volume demonstrates that despite these differences, each conceived of their extended republic of letters as militating against a violent and exclusive catholicity; theirs was a communion in which contention (or disputation) served to develop more dynamic forms of comprehensiveness. The literary, philosophical and musical production of the Herbert brothers appears here in its full European context, connected as they were with the Sidney clan and its investment in international Protestantism.

The disciplinary boundaries between poetry, philosophy, politics and theology in modern universities are a stark contrast to the deep interconnectedness of these pursuits in the seventeenth century. Crossing disciplinary and territorial borders, contributors discuss a variety of texts and media, including poetry, musical practices, autobiography, letters, council literature, orations, philosophy, history and nascent religious anthropology, all serving as agents of the circulation and construction of transregionally inspired and collective responses to human conflict and violence. We see as never before the profound connections, face-to-face as well as textual, linking early modern British literary culture with the continent. -- .

Greg Miller is Professor Emeritus of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France -- .

Introduction: contentious communion—Greg Miller and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise

Part I Thinking beyond borders: War and peace
1 The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: Experiences of the tragic and historiographic genres in Edward Herbert and George Herbert—Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
2 The Thirty Years’ War and George Herbert’s communion, an answer to violence—Greg Miller
3 “Being” James I: Herbert of Cherbury’s vexed diplomacy—Nancy Zaice
4 Ceremony and self: Belligerent civility in Edward Herbert’s Autobiography—Michael Schoenfeldt

Part II Reconsidering conformity, community and universality
5 “Gerson, a Spirituall Man”: Herbert and the University of Paris’s reformist chancellor— Christopher Hodgkins
6 Conformity and consent in Herbert of Cherbury—Anita Sherman
7 “Devout Humanism” and its problems: George Herbert and François de Sales—Richard Strier
8 George Herbert’s The Country Parson and John Calvin’s pastoral advice—Kristine A. Wolberg and Lynnette St. George
9 Edward Herbert’s The Amazon and De Veritate—Cristina Malcolmson

Part III Voices of transnational communities: From conversation to song
10 Edward Herbert within the fellowship of gentlemen plain speakers—Sean H. McDowell
11 “The little World the Great shall blaze”: Edward Herbert, Thomas Carew, Giambattista Marino, and the poetics of embassy—Eleanor Hardy
12 George Herbert and three French Protestant poets (Chandieu, Grévin, Sponde)—Guillaume Coatalen
13 Becoming “a Citizen of the world”: Edward Herbert and continental music-making— Simon Jackson
14 “Sweet Singers of our Israel”: French psalmody, the Sidneys and George Herbert—Helen Wilcox

Bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	15.07.2022
Reihe/Serie	Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5261-6409-4 / 1526164094
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-6409-4 / 9781526164094
Zustand	Neuware