Oral culture and Catholicism in early modern England /

Oral culture and Catholicism in early modern England /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Shell, Alison.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:	xiv, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Catholic Church -- In literature. Catholic Church. Christian literature, English -- Catholic authors -- History and criticism. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Anti-Catholicism -- England -- History. Oral tradition -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century. Oral tradition -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century. Oral tradition -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- 18th century. Oral tradition -- England -- History -- 16th century. Oral tradition -- England -- History -- 17th century. Oral tradition -- England -- History -- 18th century. Anti-Catholicism. Christian literature, English -- Catholic authors. English literature -- Early modern. Literature. Oral tradition. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6828913

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ISBN:	9780521883955 (hbk.) 0521883954 (hbk.) 9780521126861 (pbk.) 052112686X (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-236) and index.
Summary:	"After the Reformation, England's Catholics were marginalised and officially excluded from using printed media for propagandist ends. Hence, they turned to oral media, such as ballads and stories, to plead their case and maintain contact with their community. Building on the interest in Catholic literature which has developed in early modern studies over the last few years, Alison Shell examines the relationship between Catholicism and oral culture from the mid sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries." "This book is an important contribution to the rediscovery of the writings and culture of the Catholic community and will be of great interest to scholars of early modern literature, history and theology."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Preface
Note on conventions
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Abbey ruins, sacrilege narratives and the Gothic imagination
2. Anti-popery and the supernatural
3. Answering back: orality and controversy
4. Martyrs and confessors in oral culture
Conclusion: orality, tradition and truth
Notes
Index