'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...
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'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 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 --The specter of heretics in later Elizabethan and Jacobean writing --Part II : The war against heresy in Milton's England --The specter of heresy and blasphemy in the English Revolution : from heresiographers to the spectacle of James Nayler --The 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.
