
Milton and Catholicism
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The contributors link Milton and Catholicism with early modern confessional conflicts between Catholics and Protestants that in turn led to new models and standards of authority, scholarship, and interiority. In Milton's case, he deployed anti-Catholicism as a rhetorical device and the negative example out of which Protestants could shape their identity. The contributors argue that Milton's anti-Catholicism aligns with his understanding of inwardness and conscience and illuminates one of the central conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in the period. Building on recent scholarship on Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses over the English Tudor and Stuart period, new understandings of martyrdom, and scholarship on Catholic women, Milton and Catholicism, provides a diverse and multifaceted investigation into a complex and little-explored field in Milton studies.
Contributors: Alastair Bellany, Thomas Cogswell, Thomas N. Corns, Ronald Corthell, Angelica Duran, Martin Dzelzainis, John Flood, Estelle Haan, and Elizabeth Sauer.
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"Milton and Catholicism shifts the focus to a stridently anti-Catholic poet and polemicist. It admits that Milton's anti-Catholicism is a well-known topic, but explores some more nuanced aspects of the question. . . . [T]he book gives a thorough account . . . of his 'ideologically impassioned' hostility." -Times Literary Supplement"The University of Notre Dame Press has now added to its Catholic Culture in Early Modern England (2007) a further exploration of the Catholic background of the modern world: Milton and Catholicism. . . . The new book . . . shifts the focus to a stridently anti-Catholic poet and polemicist. It admits that Milton's anti-Catholicism is a well-known topic, but explores some more nuanced aspects of the question. . . . [T]he book gives a thorough account . . . of his 'ideologically impassioned' hostility." -Times Literary Supplement
"Milton's anti-Catholicism is not a new scholarly topic, but this fine multifaceted collection of essays not only combs that author's poetry and prose for the strong statements and creative expressions of his religious and political opposition to a religion he defined as a non-religion unworthy of toleration, but also explores some of the poet's more nuanced attitudes-for example, his affection for particular Italian Catholic intellectuals and his emphatically positive treatment of the Virgin Mary in Paradise Regained. Corthell and Corns have gathered a surprisingly varied group of studies that should interest both Miltonists and a broader audience of literary scholars and historians." -Arthur F. Marotti, Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus, Wayne State University
"This timely and well-crafted volume breaks important new ground in showing how Milton's responses to Catholicism are less binary, more imaginative, and more closely linked with his own poetic and national self-fashioning than has been recognized. A major new contribution to scholarly discussion of the construction of religious identity in early modern England, Milton and Catholicism should be of considerable interest and value not only to Miltonists but to students and scholars of early modern literature, religion, politics, and culture." -Laura L. Knoppers, editor, Milton Studies, University of Notre Dame
"This book is to be warmly welcomed as the first full-scale investigation of Milton's engagements with Catholicism. It examines his fierce Protestant anti-Catholic sentiment, as well as his admiration for the culture and intellectual life of Catholic Italy. It considers how Milton's responses to Catholicism interacted with his literary creativity and religious beliefs in his prose and poetry. Its contributors also offer fresh perspectives on the complex relation between intolerance and toleration in Milton and his contemporaries. This book is a major contribution to work on Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in early modern England." -David Loewenstein, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities, Penn State-University Park
"Milton engaged with Roman Catholicism in a variety of contexts and in many different ways. This diversity, however, rarely attracts comment. This is a book that fills a gap, without competitors, and one that promises to open up new lines of enquiry. It is also (as the introduction notes) in tune with a renewed scholarly interest in the cultural history of Roman Catholicism in early modern England." -N. H. Keeble, emeritus, University of Stirling
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Thomas N. Corns is emeritus professor of English literature at Bangor University. He is co-author of John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations and Editions
- Introduction
- 1. Milton and the Protestant Pope
- 2. John Milton and George Eglisham: The English Revolution and Catholic Disinformation
- 3. Milton, Sir Henry Vane the Younger, and the Toleration of Catholics
- 4. Roman Catholicism, De Doctrina Christiana, and the Paradise of Fools
- 5. "How Gird the Sphear"? Catholic Spain in Milton's Poetry
- 6. "Coelum non Animum Muto"?: Milton's Neo-Latin Poetry and Catholic Italy
- 7. Marian Controversies and Milton's Virgin Mary
- List of Contributors
- Index
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