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Treacherous faith : the specter of heresy in early modern English literature and culture /
'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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.