Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558 1660

by Alison Shell

Book Overview

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, those whose presence in the canon has been more fitful, and many who have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521032148
• ISBN13: 9780521032148
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"