Preacher-Poets
Sermons, Literature, and Gender in Early Modern England
Series: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 July 2026
- ISBN 9781003864066
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Halftones, black & white 700
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Short description:
Preacher-Poets demonstrates that early modern sermons had a larger impact on early modern literary texts and culture than previously assumed, by illuminating its role in shaping literary texts and examining the role of gender in order to connect sermons to the broader early modern cultural discourse.
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Preacher-Poets demonstrates that early modern sermons had a larger impact on early modern literary texts and culture than previously assumed, analyzing the role of gender in theological and non-theological texts. This book argues that the sermon genre was a critical force in early modern culture by illuminating its role in shaping literary texts and examining the role of gender in order to connect sermons to the broader early modern cultural discourse.
This project analyzes the works of canonical “preacher-poets” such as George Herbert, John Donne, and John Bunyan, alongside the devotional writings of lesser-studied women, including Anna Walker, Katherine Austen, Margaret Hoby, and Mary Rich. Importantly, the sermon genre also offers insights into the textual contributions of women in early modern England. Women’s sermon notes and devotional writings often replicated the sermon genre’s features, challenging assumptions that Protestant theology uniformly perpetuated patriarchal norms. Rather, sermons provided a framework within which women engaged actively with Protestantism. This book also further situates sermons within the broader performative landscape by connecting them to the works of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare, revealing the sermon genre’s cultural impact in seventeenth-century England.
While the early modern sermon has gained some traction in literary studies, it has yet to be discussed at length as a major influence on early modern literature and culture. This book should be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and upper-class undergraduate students of early modern literature, history, theology, and gender studies.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Maternal Body in Jonson’s Masques and Andrewes’s Sermons
Chapter 2: Preaching in the Playhouse in Shakespeare’s Comedies
Chapter 3: Poetic Preaching and Courtly Love in George Herbert’s The Temple
Chapter 4: Preachers in Dresses: Anne Walker’s Sermon and Performance in Manuscript
Chapter 5: Observing the Soul in Devotional Writings
Chapter 6: Plain Style Preaching and Gendered Souls
Chapter 7: Mary Rich’s Ministry in Seventeenth-Century Protestant England
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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