Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature brings together leading scholars of early modern literature and culture to explicate the ways in which both regional and religious contexts inform the production, circulation and interpretation of Renaissance literary texts. Examining texts by a wide variety of early modern writers - including Edmund Spenser, Lodowick Lloyd, Richard Nugent, Thomas Middleton and John Webster, Richard Montagu, and John Milton - the contributors to this volume enhance our understanding of the complex cultural contexts of early modern Anglophone writing.
Juxtaposing two approaches to Renaissance literature, the ''religious turn'' and the ''archipelagic turn'', Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature engages these two ways of interpreting early modern writing in a coherent dialogue. In its deliberate synthesis of these critical perspectives, the volume provides a fuller and deeper understanding of the regional and religious contexts of early modern literature.
