Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans: English Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth

ISBN-13: 9781138104471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017

Brian C. Lockey

Opis

Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans looks at how the perspective of sixteenth-century English Catholic exiles and seventeenth-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in, but also transcended, contemporary religious and national identities. Lockey considers the experiences of English exiles and the influence that they had on writers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Anthony Munday, Sir John Harington, Sir Richard Fanshawe, John Milton, and Aphra Behn.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Catholics, royalists, cosmopolitans: writing early modern England into the Christian commonwealth. Part I: Papal supremacy and the citizen of the world; Border-crossing and translation: the cosmopolitics of Edmund Campion, S.J., Anthony Munday, and Sir John Harington; Cosmopolitan romance: Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and the fiction of imperial justice; Traitor or cosmopolitan? Captain Thomas Stukeley in the courts of Christendom. Part II: Part II introduction: Royalists; From foreign war to civil war: the royalist reinvention of the Christian commonwealth; The Christian nation and beyond: Camões's Os Lusíadas and John Milton’s Cosmopolitan Republic; Royalist turned cosmopolitan: Aphra Behn’s portrait of the prostituted sovereign. Conclusion: the public sphere and the legacy of the Christian commonwealth; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Brian C. Lockey is Professor of English Literature at St. John's University, USA. He is also the author of Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge, 2006).