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Introduction E l i z a b e t h R o b e r t s o n Щ n the past decade, lite rary criticism has tu rn e d to religion as a ne w lens throu gh I w hich to v ie w lite ra ry production. For exam ple, in the Victorian period, critics have Ж considered such issues as blasphem y as a w o rkin g class id iom and the alternative m odel of po w e r Christ offered w o m e n and socially m arginal figures. Early M odernists have been engaged by such top ics as the "C a th o lic Shakespeare," the libera ting or repressive effects o f the Protestant reform a tion , and the kinds o f c o m m u n itie s form ed by P rotestantism .The fie ld o f m edieval studies, too, has been in vigo rated by considera­ tio n s o f the period's debates about o rth o d o xy versus heterodoxy and the influence these debates had upon vern acu lar lite ra ry developm ents. Unlike later fields, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

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Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado
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0013-8282
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10.1215/00138282-44.1.77
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E l i z a b e t h R o b e r t s o n Щ n the past decade, lite rary criticism has tu rn e d to religion as a ne w lens throu gh I w hich to v ie w lite ra ry production. For exam ple, in the Victorian period, critics have Ж considered such issues as blasphem y as a w o rkin g class id iom and the alternative m odel of po w e r Christ offered w o m e n and socially m arginal figures. Early M odernists have been engaged by such top ics as the "C a th o lic Shakespeare," the libera ting or repressive effects o f the Protestant reform a tion , and the kinds o f c o m m u n itie s form ed by P rotestantism .The fie ld o f m edieval studies, too, has been in vigo rated by considera­ tio n s o f the period's debates about o rth o d o xy versus heterodoxy and the influence these debates had upon vern acu lar lite ra ry developm ents. Unlike later fields,

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