Article: Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England.(Book review)

Jesse M. Lander. Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 324 pp. index. illus. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-521-83854-1.

Inventing Polemic is a learned and far-ranging study that considers how interrelations between religious polemic and emerging print culture of the late Elizabethan and Stuart (pre-Restoration) periods shaped a variety of literary genres and rhetorical perspectives. Lander considers such diverse moments of religious and print interventions as the Marprelate texts, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, the first and second quartos of Hamlet, and Milton's Areopagitica. ...

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