- Hardcover: 376 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (22 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198270151
- ISBN-13: 978-0198270157
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 3.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,786,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[Martin's] account of what a cynic might call the cooking of the death of Luther is rather a tour de force and her guesstimates of why Foxe did what he did with the life of Cranmer are very compelling. (Faith and Worship )
[Martin] demonstrates, very interestingly, how the funeral sermon, a form which manifests awkward tensions, was vital in the development of Walton's genre. She is very sprightly on death. (Faith and Worship )
... anyone with a real interest in the religion and literature of the seventeenth century will want to read this book. (Faith and Worship )
As Jessica Martin argues - it is the central interest of her tightly argued and interesting book - Walton's originality lies in his creation of a lay voice and persona. (John Barnard, Times Literary Supplement )
Martin gives a strikingly empathetic account of the religious mentality of conforming Anglicans, complementing Patrick Collinson's ground-breaking work on the "godly people" (Puritans). (John Barnard, Times Literary Supplement )
[Martin] demonstrates, very interestingly, how the funeral sermon, a form which manifests awkward tensions, was vital in the development of Walton's genre. She is very sprightly on death. (Faith and Worship )
... anyone with a real interest in the religion and literature of the seventeenth century will want to read this book. (Faith and Worship )
As Jessica Martin argues - it is the central interest of her tightly argued and interesting book - Walton's originality lies in his creation of a lay voice and persona. (John Barnard, Times Literary Supplement )
Martin gives a strikingly empathetic account of the religious mentality of conforming Anglicans, complementing Patrick Collinson's ground-breaking work on the "godly people" (Puritans). (John Barnard, Times Literary Supplement )
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This book argues that Walton's practice, in his Lives, was crucial in shaping modern expectations of biography: how it should be organised, how it should treat evidence, how seriously it should regard narrative coherence, and most particularly in the modern expectation of an intimate relationship between author, reader, and subject. Dr Martin considers Walton's biographical ethics in relation to the tributary genres influencing him as they emerged from post-Reformation commendatory practice after 1546, most particularly classical funeral oratory and the emergent Protestant funeral sermon, the Plutarchan parallel, the didactic Character, martyrological narrative, and finally Walton's direct model, the exemplary biographical commemoration of the conformist minister. Dr Martin considers how Walton develops his literary inheritance, arguing that his lay status required him to initiate a different kind of mediation between reader and subject from the straightforwardly imitative. Walton presents himself as a channel for the words and acts of an authoritative subject, a preference implicitly followed both in his stress on personal connections with his subjects (which spectacularly particularizes his portraits) and in his very extensive use of their own writings. His Lives attempt posthumous autobiography. They are also considered as prominent and accomplished examples of the many politically intended narratives which exploit a consensual interpretation of private virtue to support, without having to argue for, a sectarian interpretation of public rectitude.
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John Donne remarks in a sermon, 'You would scarce thank a man for an extemporall Elegy, or Epigram, or Panegyrique in your praise, if it cost the Poet, or the Orator no paines'. Read the first page
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