David Loewenstein

Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 898g
• ISBN-13: 9780199203390
• ISBN-10: 0199203393
• Artikelnr.: 39338305

Autorenporträt

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