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The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide.range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. It discusses canonical figures such as Sidney, Spenser, Webster and Middleton alongside many lesser-known writers. Alison Shell explores the Catholic rhetoric of loyalism and apostasy, and the stimulus given to the Catholic literary imagination by the persecution and exile so many of these writers suffered. The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. Nauseated with murder and steeped in unspoken guilt, the protagonist at the end of Donna Tartt's Secret History finds that only one fictional genre speaks to his condition.

Author

Shell, Alison, Alison Shell

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511007248

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction