Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism / / Lowell Gallagher.

• VerfasserIn: Gallagher, Lowell,
• MitwirkendeR: Dillon, Anne,; Dolan, Frances E.,; Gallagher, Lowell,; Jensen, Phebe,; Kuchar, Gary,; Marotti, Arthur F.,; Monta, Susannah,; Pickett, Holly Crawford,; Rambuss, Richard,; Rust, Jennifer R.,; Shell, Alison,; Tutino, Stefania,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

The tumultuous climate of early modern England had a profound effect on its Catholic population's domestic life, social customs, literary inventions, and political arguments. Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism explores the broad spectrum of the early modern English Catholic experience, presenting fresh and often startling assessments of the most problematic topics in post-Reformation English Catholicism. The contributors to this volume - all leading or rising scholars of early modern studies - conceptualize English Catholicism as a hazardous series of contested territories divided by shifting boundaries, requiring Catholics to navigate with vigilance and diplomacy their status as 'insiders' or 'outsiders.' This collection also presents new ways to understand the connections between reformist and Catholic inflections in the emerging canon of English poetry, despite the eventual marginalization of Catholic poets in English literary history. Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism ably demonstrates the profoundly experimental as well as recuperative character of early modern English Catholicism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- 1. Introduction -- PART I. SIGNPOSTS -- 2. In Defence of Idolatry: Residual Catholic Culture and the Protestant Assault on the Sensuous in Early Modern England -- 3. 'True and Perfect Relations'; or, Identifying Henry Garnet and Leticia Wigington by Their Confessions -- 4. Motion Rhetoric in Serial Conversion Narratives: Religion and Change in Early Modern England -- PART II. POETICS -- 5. William Alabaster and the Palinode -- 6. Crashaw's Style -- 7. Alchemy, Repentance, and Recusant Allegory in Robert Southwell's Saint Peters Complaint -- 8. Malengin and Mercilla, Southwell and Spenser: The Poetics of Tears and the Politics of Martyrdom in The Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto 9 -- PART III. COMMUNITIES -- 9. 'Honest mirth & merriment': Christmas and Catholicism in Early Modern England -- 10. Uncommon Prayer? Robert Southwell's Short Rule for a Good Life and Catholic Domestic Devotion in Post-Reformation England -- 11. 'To seek out some Comforts and Companions of his own kind and condition': The Benedictine Rosary Confraternity and Chapel of Cardigan House, London -- 12. Obedience and Consent: Thomas White and English Catholicism, 1640-1660 -- Contributors -- Index