Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England

by Jesse M. Lander

Jesse Lander explores the development of the book in early modern England as both a physical object and a platform for debate and polemic. Wide-ranging in its consideration of texts, from Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Milton's Areopagitica and Hamlet to ephemeral polemical pamphlets from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the volume recasts the historical and theological contexts of early modern English literature.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

Jesse M. Lander is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He has edited editions of William Shakespeares's Macbeth, King Henry IV, Part 1, and King John as well as the author of Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print and Literary Culture in Early Modern England and co-editor of The Book in History, The Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text .