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Zusatztext Treacherous Faith is an ambitious, scholarly and compelling survey of the fear of heresy and blasphemy across two centuries. It provides shocking evidence of the effects of that fear on the rhetoric and actions of both Catholics and Protestants. Yet does so from a modern liberal standpoint. Informationen zum Autor David Loewenstein is Helen C. White Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His books include Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism (CUP, 2001), which received the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Award. He has co-edited The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley (Oxford University Press, 2009), and has edited John Milton, Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). With Thomas N. Corns, he is editing Paradise Lost for The Complete Works of John Milton (OUP). Klappentext Treacherous Faith is a major study of heresy and the literary imagination from the English Reformation to the Restoration. It analyzes both canonical and lesser-known writers who contributed to fears about the contagion of heresy. Zusammenfassung Treacherous Faith is a major study of heresy and the literary imagination from the English Reformation to the Restoration. It analyzes both canonical and lesser-known writers who contributed to fears about the contagion of heresy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The Specter of Heresy and Religious Conflict in English Reformation Literary Culture 1: Religious Demonization, Anti-Heresy Polemic, and Thomas More 2: Anne Askew and the Culture of Heresy Hunting in Henry VIII's England 3: Burning Heretics and Fashioning Martyrs: Religious Violence in John Foxe and Reformation England 4: The Specter of Heretics in Later Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing Part II: The War against Heresy in Milton's England 5: The Specter of Heresy and Blasphemy in the English Revolution: From Heresiographers to the Spectacle of James Nayler 6: The Specter of Heresy and the Struggle for Toleration: John Goodwin, William Walwyn, and Richard Overton 7: John Milton: Toleration and "Fantastic Terrors of Sect and Schism" 8: Fears of Heresy, Blasphemy, and Religious Schism in Milton's Culture and Paradise Lost Epilogue: Making Heretics and Bunyan's Vanity Fair ...
