Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts

RONALD CORTHELL Associate Professor of English at Kent State University FRANCIS DOLAN Associate Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio SIMON HEALY Research Fellow at The History of Parliament Trust. JOHN N. KING Professor of English, Ohio State University ANTHONY MILTON teaches in the Department of History at The University of Sheffield MICHAEL QUESTIER currently at the Westminster Diocesan Archive ALISON SHELL teaches English at the University of Durham JOHN WATKINS Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota JULIAN YATES Assistant Professor of English at The University of Delaware

Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England.Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. They foreground some major literary authors and canonical texts, but also examine non-canonical literature as well as other writings that embody ideological fantasies connecting the political and religious discourses of the time with their literary manifestations.