Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination - Nationalism, Religion, and Literature, 1660-1745

Klappentext A study of anti-Catholic rhetoric in England! 1660 1745! covering a wide range of literary and historical texts. Zusammenfassung This study examines the role of anti-Catholic rhetoric in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. It discusses writers from Middleton! Milton and Marvell to Swift! Defoe and Fielding! as well as numerous pamphleteers! crossing traditional boundaries between poetry and prose! literature and polemic! the Reformation and the Augustan age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Constructing the nation, constructing the other: martyrology and mercantilism; 2. Of true religion and false politics: Milton, Marvell and Popery; 3. 'The King's Spiritual Militia': the Church of England and the plot of the plot; 4. 'Reason and Religion': the science of Anglicanism; 5. Polemic and silence: Jeremy Collier, Elkanah Settle, and the ideological appropriation of morality; 6. 'Politeness and politics': the literature of exclusion and the 'true Protestant heart'; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Raymond D. Tumbleson, Raymond D. (Kutztown University Tumbleson, Tumbleson Raymond D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521100892
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10089-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; England, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Christianity, History of Religion, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800