TY - BOOK AU - Gurney,Evan A. TI - Love's quarrels: reading charity in early modern England T2 - Massachusetts studies in early modern culture SN - 1613766289 AV - PR418.C33 G87 2018 U1 - 820.9/355 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Charity in literature KW - Charité dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Early modern KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Charitable translation: Thomas More, William Tyndale, and the Vagrant text -- Charitable admonition: moral reform in Elizabethan polemic and satire -- Charitable allegory: figures of love in Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Charitable use: Ben Jonson, city comedy, and commercial charity -- Charitable singularity: negotiations of liberty in Civil War England N2 - "Early modern English writers often complained that 'charity had grown cold, ' lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from diminishing in scope or influence, charity generated heated debates, animated by social, political, and religious changes that prompted urgent questions about the virtue's powers and functions. Charity was as much a problem as it was a solution, a sure sign of trouble even when invoked on behalf of peace and community. Love's Quarrels charts charity's complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in biblical translations of the early sixteenth century, in Elizabethan polemic and satire, and in the political and religious controversies arriving at the outset of civil war. As key works from Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton reveal, "reading charity" was fraught with difficulty as early modern England reconsidered its deepest held convictions in the face of mounting social disruption and spiritual pressure"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2172933 ER -