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The Persistence of Catholicism: Literature, Nationhood, and Religion in Early Modern England

The Persistence of Catholicism: Literature, Nationhood, and Religion in Early Modern England

Marotti, Arthur F.

Hardcover

Series: Studies and Texts, Book 243

Literary CriticismCatholicismBritish History

ISBN10: 0888442432
ISBN13: 9780888442437
Publisher: PIMS
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume collects previously published studies, now thoroughly updated and revised, with the aim of exploring the religious and political complexities of early modern English Catholicism from the mid-sixteenth through the late seventeenth centuries.

Together, these essays analyze the residual presence of Catholic culture within the larger narrative of English history, using the work of such writers as William Shakespeare, John Donne, and Dame Gertrude More, as well as a range of non-literary evidence, to interpret the varieties of religious experience and the multiple ways in which they related to contemporary audiences and readers. Including the seigneurial Catholicism of the upper classes, the popular survival of traditional religious practices, and the different colonial solutions to the problem of religious toleration, this account opposes the oversimplified Whig interpretation of English history with the complex forces of a changing political landscape.

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