Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts

by A. Marotti (Editor)

Overview

Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. They foreground some major literary authors and canonical texts, but also examine non-canonical literature as well as other writings that embody ideological fantasies connecting the political and religious discourses of the time with their literary manifestations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333732182
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/11/1999
Series:	Early Modern Literature in History , #14199
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

RONALD CORTHELL Associate Professor of English at Kent State University FRANCIS DOLAN Associate Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio SIMON HEALY Research Fellow at The History of Parliament Trust. JOHN N. KING Professor of English, Ohio State University ANTHONY MILTON teaches in the Department of History at The University of Sheffield MICHAEL QUESTIER currently at the Westminster Diocesan Archive ALISON SHELL teaches English at the University of Durham JOHN WATKINS Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota JULIAN YATES Assistant Professor of English at The University of Delaware

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Alienating Catholics in Early Modern England: Recusant Women, Jesuits, and Ideological Fantasies; A.F.Marotti Robert Persons and the Writer's Mission; R.Corthell Parasitic Geographies: Manifesting Catholic Identity in Early Modern England; J.Yates The Myth of Anti-Catholicism in Early Stuart England; A. Milton 'Out of her Ashes May a Second Phoenix Rise': James I and the Legacy of Elizabethan Anti-Catholicism; J. Watkins 'What's in a Name?': A Papist's Perception of Puritanism and Conformity in the Early Seventeenth Century; M.Questier and S.Healy Multiple Conversion and the Menippean Self: the Case of Richard Carpenter; A.Shell Milton's Paradise of Fools: Ecclesiastical Satire in Paradise Lost ; J.N.King 'The Wretched Subject the Whole Town Talks of': Representing Elizabeth Cellier (London, 1680); F.E.Dolan Index

Editorial Reviews

A collection of nine essays focusing on polemical, historical, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between Catholic and anti- Catholic discourses in early modern England. Essays highlight the politically malleable and situational character of anti-Catholic codes and language both in the context of larger Catholic-Protestant national and international conflict and within the fiercely contested terrain of the English Protestant Church. They examine canonical and non-canonical literary texts as well as extra-literary documents that embody the kinds of ideological fantasies and languages that connect the political and religious discourses of early modern English culture with their literary manifestations. Contributors are literary scholars and historians. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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