Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Davis, Andrew Dean Author's Email Address adavis46@gsu.edu URN etd-08132009-083909 Title Protestants Reading Catholicism: Crashaw's Reformed Readership Degree Master of Arts Department English Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Paul J. Voss Committee Chair Paul Schmidt Committee Member Wayne Erickson Committee Member Keywords
- Puritans
- New Historicism
- Meditative poetry
- Louis Martz
- Genre Theory
- Catholicism
- Metaphysical poets
- Steps to the Temple
- Richard Crashaw
- Edward Taylor
Date of Defense 2009-07-17 Availability unrestricted Abstract This thesis seeks to realign Richard Crashaw’s aesthetic orientation with a broadly conceptualized genre of seventeenth-century devotional, or meditative, poetry. This realignment clarifies Crashaw’s worth as a poet within the Renaissance canon and helps to dismantle historicist and New Historicist readings that characterize him as a literary anomaly. The methodology consists of an expanded definition of meditative poetry, based primarily on Louis Martz’s original interpretation, followed by a series of close readings executed to show continuity between Crashaw and his contemporaries, not discordance. The thesis concludes by expanding the genre of seventeenth-century devotional poetry to include Edward Taylor, who despite his Puritanism, also exemplifies many of the same generic attributes as Crashaw.Files
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