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Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination

Nationalism, Religion, and Literature, 1660-1745

  • Hardback
  • 264 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of English history and literature

Uncovers the roots of intolerance in English nationalism

You will gain a deeper understanding of historical context

This insightful study explores anti-Catholic rhetoric in 17th and 18th-century England.

This study examines the role of anti-Catholic rhetoric in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. This role was long neglected, being at once obvious and distasteful, a reproach to the heirs of the Enlightenment who prided themselves on their tolerance and did not want to confront its origins in intolerance. Raymond Tumbleson discusses how the fear of Popery, a potentially destabilising force under the Stuarts, ultimately became a principal guarantor of the Hanoverian oligarchy. The range of authors discussed runs from Middleton, Milton and Marvell to Swift, Defoe and Fielding, as well as numerous pamphleteers. Crossing traditional generic, disciplinary and chronological boundaries, this book examines hitherto neglected relationships between poetry and prose, literature and polemic, the Reformation and the Augustan age.
Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityCatholicism in the English Protestant Imagination

  • Title

    Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination

  • Author

    Raymond D. Tumbleson

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    October 1998

  • Weight

    477g

  • Page Count

    264

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521622653

  • ISBN-10

    0521622654

  • Eden Code

    1213218

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