Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0511007248
9780511007248
0511038631
9780511038631
0511116608
9780511116605
9780521580908
0521580900
9780511483981
0511483988
9780521032148
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-302) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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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| Other form: | Print version: Shell, Alison. Catholicism, controversy, and the English literary imagination, 1558-1660. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521580900
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