Treacherous faith : the specter of heresy in early modern English literature and culture / David Loewenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loewenstein, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian heresies in literature.

Christian heretics--England--History--16th century.

Christian heretics.

Christian heretics--England--History--17th century.

Religion and literature--England--History--16th century.

Religion and literature.

Religion and literature--England--History--17th century.

England--Church history--16th century.

England.

England--Church history--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: THE SPECTER OF HERESY AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN ENGLISH REFORMATION LITERARY CULTURE; 1. Religious Demonization, Anti-Heresy Polemic, and Thomas More; Thomas More: Heretic Hunter or Humanist Saint?; The Specter of Evangelical Heresy and A Dialogue Concerning Heresies; New Heretics and Cunning Theatricalism; More's Dialogue Shuts Down; Defender of the Faith: Making Heretics and Demonizing Tyndale in More's Confutation; Conclusion: More, Heresy-Making, and Religious Fear

2. Anne Askew and the Culture of Heresy-Hunting in Henry VIII's EnglandFears of Sacramentarianism and the Hunt for Heretics; Polemical Tactics and Reformation Hermeneutics; 3. Burning Heretics and Fashioning Martyrs: Religious Violence in John Foxe and Reformation England; Foxe's Emergence and the Culture of Heresy-Hunting; Religious Extremism and Mild Martyrdom; Representing "Heretics" and Fashioning Martyrs: From Tyndale to Cranmer; Conclusion: "Seas of Discord and Contention"; 4. The Specter of Heretics in Later Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing

Constructing Heretics at St. Paul's Cross: Richard Bancroft and Fears of Puritan SeparatismCreating the Specter of Anabaptism and Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller; Spenser and Anabaptist Subversion; The Specter of Familism to James VI and I; PART II: THE WAR AGAINST HERESY IN MILTON'S ENGLAND; 5. The Specter of Heresy and Blasphemy in the English Revolution: From Heresiographers to the Spectacle of James Nayler; Heresy-Making and Religious Warfare; The Heresiography: Constructing Heretics and the Demonizing Imagination; The Warfaring Heresiographer: Thomas Edwards's Self-Presentation

Monstrous Toleration and the Specter of HeresyFears of Blasphemy in the Interregnum: James Nayler as Blasphemous Heretic and Cause Célèbre; 6. The Specter of Heresy and the Struggle for Toleration: John Goodwin, William Walwyn, and Richard Overton; John Goodwin: Heresy, Independency, and the Struggle for Toleration; William Walwyn: Religious Demonizing and the Tolerant Imagination; Richard Overton: The Culture of Heresy-Making and the Dramatic Pamphlet; 7. John Milton: Toleration and "Fantastic Terrors of Sect and Schism"; Milton and the "Terrors" of Heresy in the 1640s

Milton's Later Prose and the "Terrors" of Heresy, Blasphemy, and Toleration8. Fears of Heresy, Blasphemy, and Religious Schism in Milton's Culture and Paradise Lost; Heresy Fears in Milton's Culture from the English Revolution to the Restoration; Cunning Heretics and Milton's Satan; Religious Schism, Faction, and Uniformity; Blasphemy in Milton's Culture and Paradise Lost; Paradise Lost as a Poem of Toleration?; Epilogue: Making Heretics and Bunyan's Vanity Fair; Endnotes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-468) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-150488-2

1-299-96656-X

OCLC:

861692576