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Catholicism, controversy, and the English literary imagination, 1558-1660

By Alison Shell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0-511-03863-1, 0-521-58090-0
LCC
PR428.C3 S54 1999
Open Library ID
OL373451M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1401332 bytes)
Pages
323\323
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. It discusses canonical figures such as Sidney, Spenser, Webster and Middleton alongside many lesser-known writers. Alison Shell explores the Catholic rhetoric of loyalism and apostasy, and the stimulus given to the Catholic literary imagination by the persecution and exile so many of these writers suffered.

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