ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the collection of original readings, which focuses on the similarities/differences in the writers’ effort to forge themselves as literary, religious, and political subjects amid a shifting politico-religious landscape; strife between self-fashioning and self-erasure; experience of state coercion, criticism of the court, and loyalty to their monarch; impact of science, rationality, cosmology, theology, literary conventions, political ideas, and religious dogmas on their works; and influence of their work on their readership.
