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Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination 1558-1660

Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination 1558-1660

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Publisher's Synopsis

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, those whose presence in the canon has been more fitful, and many who have escaped the attention of literary critics. Among the themes to emerge are the anti-Catholic imagery of revenge tragedy and the definitive contribution made by Southwell and Crashaw to the post-Reformation revival of religious verse in England. Alison Shell offers a fascinating exploration of the rhetorical stratagems by which Catholics sought to demonstrate simultaneous loyalties to the monarch and to their religion, and of the stimulus given to the Catholic literary imagination by the persecution and exile so many of these writers suffered.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521580908
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 820.922209031
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 309
Weight: 580g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 22mm