| Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558 1660 Contributor(s): Shell, Alison (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521580900 ISBN-13: 9780521580908 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.992 |
| LCCN: 98-35135 |
| Lexile Measure: 1510 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.41 lbs) 322 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Religious Orientation - Catholic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 alongside many lesser-known writers. Alison Shell explores the Catholic rhetoric of loyalism and apostasy, and the stimulus given to the Catholic literary imagination by the persecution and exile so many of these writers suffered. |