Title Treacherous faith : the specter of heresy in early modern English literature and culture / David Loewenstein.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource (xii, 497 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-468) and index.
Summary	'Treacherous Faith' is a major study of heresy and the literary imagination from the English Reformation to the Restoration. It analyzes both canonical and lesser-known writers who contributed to fears about the contagion of heresy, as well as those who challenged cultural constructions of heresy and the rhetoric of fear-mongering.
Contents	Introduction -- Part I : The specter of heresy and religious conflict in English Reformation literary culture -- Religious demonization, anti-heresy polemic, and Thomas More -- Anne Askew and the culture of heresy-hunting in Henry VIII's England -- Burning heretics and fashioning martyrs : religious violence in John Foxe and Reformation England -- Specter of heretics in later Elizabethan and Jacobean writing -- Part II : The war against heresy in Milton's England -- Specter of heresy and blasphemy in the English Revolution : from heresiographers to the spectacle of James Nayler -- Specter of heresy and the struggle for toleration : John Goodwin, William Walwyn, and Richard Overton -- John Milton : toleration and "Fantastic terrors of sect and schism" -- Fears of heresy, blasphemy, and religious schism in Milton's culture and Paradise lost -- Epilogue : making heretics and Bunyan's Vanity Fair.
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Subject	Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
	Religion and literature.
	England.
	History.
Chronological Term	16th century
Subject	Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term	17th century
Subject	Christian heresies in literature.
	Christian heresies in literature.
	Christian heretics -- England -- History -- 16th century.
	Christian heretics.
	Christian heretics -- England -- History -- 17th century.
	England -- Church history -- 16th century.
	Church history.
	England -- Church history -- 17th century.
Chronological Term	1500-1699
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Church history.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Loewenstein, David. Treacherous faith. First edition 9780199203390 (OCoLC)858967817
ISBN	9780191504884 (electronic book)
	0191504882 (electronic book)
	9780191762796
	0191762792
	9780199203390
	0199203393

Title Treacherous faith : the specter of heresy in early modern English literature and culture / David Loewenstein.

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