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Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature

Penitential Remains

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Paul D. Stegner

    1. California Polytechnic State University, USA

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Confession and Memory in the Age of Reformations

    • Paul D. Stegner
    Pages 1-42

  3. Confession and Redemptive Forgetting in Spenser’s Legend of Holiness: Memories of Sin, Memories of Salvation

    • Paul D. Stegner
    Pages 43-74

  4. The Will to Forget: Ovidian Heroism and the Compulsion to Confess in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

    • Paul D. Stegner
    Pages 75-105

  5. “Try what repentance can”: Hamlet, Confession, and the Extraction of Interiority

    • Paul D. Stegner
    Pages 106-128

  6. Will and the Reconciled Maid: Rereading Confession and Remembering Sin in Shake-speares Sonnets

    • Paul D. Stegner
    Pages 129-151

  7. Treasonous Reconciliations: Robert Southwell, Religious Polemic, and the Criminalization of Confession

    • Paul D. Stegner
    Pages 152-173

  8. Conclusion: Memories of Confession in Seventeenth-century England

    • Paul D. Stegner
    Pages 174-180

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 181-232
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About this book

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell.

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“Stegner’s introduction neatly traces the gradual erasure of Catholic private auricular confession after the Reformation and how confession was reoriented by the Elizabethan settlement. … this wide-ranging study offers a timely appraisal of the relationship between memory, the penitential tradition, and early modern English literature.” (Rachel Willie, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70 (1), 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • California Polytechnic State University, USA

    Paul D. Stegner

About the author

Paul D. Stegner is Associate Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University, USA. His essays have appeared in Shakespeare Studies, Studies in Philology, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and several edited collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser.

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