Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts

285 Pages·1999·2.98 MB·English

by  Arthur F. Marotti

CATHOLICISM AND ANTI-CATHOLICISM
IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TEXTS
EARLY MODERN LITERATURE IN HISTORY
General Editor: Cedric C. Brown
Professor of English and Head of Department, University of Reading
Within the period 1520-1740 this series discusses many kinds of writing,
both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ
different theoretical perspectives, but they share an historical awareness
and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation with their own
and successive cultures.
Titles include:
Anna R. Beer
SIR WALTER RALEGH AND HIS READERS IN THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY: Speaking to the People
Cedric C. Brown and Arthur F. Marotti (editors)
TEXTS AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
John Dolan
POETIC OCCASION FROM MILTON TO WORDSWORTH
Pauline Kiernan
STAGING SHAKESPEARE AT THE NEW GLOBE
Ronald Knowles (editor)
SHAKESPEARE AND CARNIVAL: After Bakhtin
James Loxley
ROYALISM AND POETRY IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS:
The Drawn Sword
Arthur F. Marotti (editor)
CATHOLICISM AND ANTI-CATHOLICISM IN EARLY MODERN
ENGLISH TEXTS
Mark Thornton Burnett
MASTERS AND SERVANTS IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA AND
CULTURE: Authority and Obedience
The series Early Modern Literature in History is published
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at the University of Reading.
Catholicism and
Anti-Catholicism
in Early Modern
English Texts
Edited by
Arthur E Marotti
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Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in early modern English texts /
edited by Arthur F. Marotti
p. cm. — (Early modern literature in history)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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1. English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and
criticism. 2. Christian literature, English—Catholic authors-
-History and criticism. 3. English literature—Protestant authors-
-History and criticism. 4. English literature—Catholic authors-
-History and criticism. 5. Christianity and literature—England-
-History—17th century. 6. Christianity and literature—England-
-History—16th century. 7. Anti-Catholicism—England—History.
8. Catholic Church—England—History. 9. Anti-Catholicism in
literature. 10. Catholic Church—In literature. I. Marotti,
Arthur F., 1940- . II. Series.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Notes on the Contributors xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xix
1. Alienating Catholics in Early Modern England:
Recusant Women, Jesuits and Ideological Fantasies
Arthur F. Marotti 1
2. Robert Persons and the Writer's Mission
Ronald Corthell 35
3. Parasitic Geographies: Manifesting Catholic
Identity in Early Modern England
Julian Yates 63
4. A Qualified Intolerance: the Limits and Ambiguities of
Early Stuart Anti-Catholicism
Anthony Milton 85
5. 'Out of her Ashes May a Second Phoenix Rise':
James I and the Legacy of Elizabethan
Anti-Catholicism
John Watkins 116
6. 'What's in a Name?' A Papist's Perception of
Puritanism and Conformity in the Early
Seventeenth Century
Michael Questier and Simon Healy 137
7. Multiple Conversion and the Menippean Self: the
Case of Richard Carpenter
Alison Shell 154
8. Milton's Paradise of Fools: Ecclesiastical Satire in
Paradise Lost
John N. King 198
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9. 'The Wretched Subject the Whole Town Talks of:
Representing Elizabeth Cellier (London, 1680)
Frances E. Dolan 218
Index 259
List of Figures
Figure 3.1 Pedigree of the Fitzherberts. Reproduced
by permission of the Public Record Office 73
Figure 7.1 The Anabaptist washt and washt, and
shrunk in the washing (1653). Reproduced
by permission of the British Library 166
Figure 7.2 Frontispiece, Richard Carpenter, Experience,
historic and divinitie (1641). Reproduced
by permission of the British Library 177
Figure 7.3 Illustration from The Anabaptist washt
and washt (1653). Reproduced by
permission of the British Library 178
Figure 7.4 Richard Carpenter, The Jesuit and the
monk (1656). Reproduced by permission
of the British Library 182
Figure 8.1 A Discovery of the Jesuits' Trumpery, Newly
Packed Out of England (1641). Reproduced
by permission of the British Library 204
Figure 8.2 Wenceslaus Hollar, Time Carrying the
Pope from England to Rome (c. 1641).
Reproduced by permission of the
British Museum 205
Figure 9.1 Cellier as author. Queen of spades from
playing cards depicting 'The Meal Tub Plot'.
Reproduced by permission of the Beinecke
Library, Yale University 226
Figure 9.2 Cellier as the pillory. From The Popish
Damnable Plot Against Our Religion and
Liberties (1681). Reproduced by permission
of the Beinecke Library, Yale University 227
Figure 9.3 Cellier 'disgracing' the pillory. Queen of
Diamonds from playing cards depicting
'The Meal Tub Plot'. Reproduced by
permission of the Beinecke Library, Yale
University 226
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