Oral culture and Catholicism in early modern England / Alison Shell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shell, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--In literature.

Catholic Church.

Christian literature, English--Catholic authors--History and criticism.

Christian literature, English.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Anti-Catholicism--England--History.

Anti-Catholicism.

Oral tradition--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History--16th century.

Oral tradition.

Oral tradition--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History--17th century.

Oral tradition--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History--18th century.

Oral tradition--England--History--16th century.

Oral tradition--England--History--17th century.

Oral tradition--England--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Oral Culture & Catholicism in Early Modern England

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the Reformation, England's Catholics were marginalised and excluded from using printed media for propagandist ends. Instead, they turned to oral media, such as ballads and stories, to plead their case and maintain contact with their community. Building on the growing interest in Catholic literature which has developed in early modern studies, Alison Shell examines the relationship between Catholicism and oral culture from the mid-sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In order to recover the textual traces of this minority culture, she expands canonical boundaries, looking at anecdotes, spells and popular verse alongside more conventionally literary material. In her archival research she uncovers many important manuscript sources. This book is an important contribution to the rediscovery of the writings and culture of the Catholic community and will be of great interest to scholars of early modern literature, history and theology.

Contents:

Abbey ruins, sacrilege narratives and the Gothic imagination

Anti-popery and the supernatural

Answering back : orality and controversy

Martyrs and confessors in oral culture

Conclusion : orality, tradition and truth.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-236) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18601-3

1-281-24381-7

9786611243814

0-511-37839-4

0-511-37751-7

0-511-37657-X

0-511-37504-2

0-511-48399-6

0-511-37926-9

OCLC:

476127636