Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts
Author | : A. Marotti |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1999-06-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230374881 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230374883 |
Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.