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 |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Christian heresies in literature.
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Christian heretics -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Christian heretics -- England -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Christian heresies in literature
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Christian heretics
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Religion and literature
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SUBJECT |
England -- Church history -- 16th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267
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England -- Church history -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268
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England
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Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191504884 |
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0191504882 |
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9780191762796 |
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0191762792 |
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