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Book SynopsisResponding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Alienating Catholics in Early Modern England: Recusant Women, Jesuits, and Ideological Fantasies; A.F.Marotti Robert Persons and the Writer's Mission; R.Corthell Parasitic Geographies: Manifesting Catholic Identity in Early Modern England; J.Yates The Myth of Anti-Catholicism in Early Stuart England; A. Milton 'Out of her Ashes May a Second Phoenix Rise': James I and the Legacy of Elizabethan Anti-Catholicism; J. Watkins 'What's in a Name?': A Papist's Perception of Puritanism and Conformity in the Early Seventeenth Century; M.Questier and S.Healy Multiple Conversion and the Menippean Self: the Case of Richard Carpenter; A.Shell Milton's Paradise of Fools: Ecclesiastical Satire in Paradise Lost ; J.N.King 'The Wretched Subject the Whole Town Talks of': Representing Elizabeth Cellier (London, 1680); F.E.Dolan Index
