Catholicism in the English Protestant imagination : nationalism, religion, and literature, 1660-1745
This study examines the role of anti-Catholic rhetoric in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. It discusses writers from Middleton, Milton and Marvell to Swift, Defoe and Fielding, as well as numerous pamphleteers, crossing traditional boundaries between poetry and prose, literature and polemic, the Reformation and the Augustan age.
Church history
ix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521622653, 9780521100892, 0521622654, 0521100895
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Introduction. Canonicity and catholicity : the universal church of literature. Constructing the nation, constructing the other : martyrology and mercantilism
Of true religion and false politics : Milton, Marvell, and Popery
the "king's spiritual militia" : the Church of England and the plot of the Plot
"Reason and religion" : the science of Anglicanism
Polemic and silence : Jeremy Collier, Elkanah Settle, and the ideological appropriation of morality
" Politeness and politics" : the literature of exclusion and the "true protestant heart"
Conclusion