Title Treacherous faith : the specter of heresy in early modern English literature and culture / David Loewenstein

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 497 pages) : illustrations (black and white) Contents Introduction -- Part I : The specter of heresy and religious conflict in English Reformation literary culture -- Religious demonization, anti-heresy polemic, and Thomas More -- Anne Askew and the culture of heresy-hunting in Henry VIII's England -- Burning heretics and fashioning martyrs : religious violence in John Foxe and Reformation England -- The specter of heretics in later Elizabethan and Jacobean writing -- Part II : The war against heresy in Milton's England -- The specter of heresy and blasphemy in the English Revolution : from heresiographers to the spectacle of James Nayler -- The specter of heresy and the struggle for toleration : John Goodwin, William Walwyn, and Richard Overton -- John Milton : toleration and "Fantastic terrors of sect and schism" -- Fears of heresy, blasphemy, and religious schism in Milton's culture and Paradise lost -- Epilogue : making heretics and Bunyan's Vanity Fair Summary '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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-468) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century Christian heresies in literature. Christian heretics -- England -- History -- 16th century Christian heretics -- England -- History -- 17th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Christian heresies in literature Christian heretics Religion and literature SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267 England -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268 Subject England Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191504884 0191504882 9780191762796 0191762792

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