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, as well as those who challenged cultural constructions of heresy and the rhetoric of fear-mongering
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, as well as those who challenged cultural constructions of heresy and the rhetoric of fear-mongering
David Loewenstein is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities at Penn State University, 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 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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