Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England

The Song of Songs, with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase. This book charts the fascination with the mystical marriage, its implication in the various political conflicts of the seventeenth century, and its appeal to seventeenth-century writers, particularly women.

Author: E. Clarke
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/29/2011
Pages: 265
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780333714119

About the Author
ELIZABETH CLARKE is Reader in English at Warwick University, UK, where she leads the Perdita Project investigating women's manuscript writing in the Early Modern period.