Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558 - 166

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note on the text; Introduction; Part I. Catholics and the Canon: 1. The livid flash: decadence, anti-Catholic revenge tragedy and the dehistoricised critic; 2. Catholic poetics and the Protestant canon; Part II. Loyalism and Exclusion: 3. Catholic loyalism: I. Elizabethan writers; 4. Catholic loyalism: II. Stuart writers; 5. The subject of exile: I; 6. The subject of exile: II; Conclusion; Notes; List of works frequently cited; Index.

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• Authors: Alison Shell, Alison (University of Durham) Shell, Shell Alison
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521032148
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03214-8
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; England, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600