Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination: Nationalism, Religion, and Literature, 1660-1745

ISBN-13: 9780521622653 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 266 str.

Raymond D. Tumbleson

Opis

This study examines the role of anti-Catholic rhetoric in late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England. Raymond Tumbleson shows how the fear of Popery, a potentially destabilizing force under the Stuarts, ultimately became a principal guarantor of the Hanoverian oligarchy. Discussing writers from Middleton, Milton and Marvell to Swift, Defoe and Fielding, as well as numerous pamphleteers, the book crosses traditional generic, disciplinary and chronological boundaries between poetry and prose, literature and polemic, the Reformation and the Augustan age.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… the book is learned, sophisticated, and imaginative … sometimes intricate and often subtle … reflexive, fiercely intelligent, and stylish - it should be read by historians, not least for what it tells us about ourselves and the intellectual climate in which we work.' The Historical Journal

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Constructing the nation, constructing the other: martyrology and mercantilism; 2. Of true religion and false politics: Milton, Marvell and Popery; 3. 'The King's Spiritual Militia': the Church of England and the plot of the plot; 4. 'Reason and Religion': the science of Anglicanism; 5. Polemic and silence: Jeremy Collier, Elkanah Settle, and the ideological appropriation of morality; 6. 'Politeness and politics': the literature of exclusion and the 'true Protestant heart'; Conclusion.