ABSTRACT
Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature brings together leading scholars of early modern literature and culture to explicate the ways in which both regional and religious contexts inform the production, circulation and interpretation of Renaissance literary texts. Examining texts by a wide variety of early modern writers - including Edmund Spenser, Lodowick Lloyd, Richard Nugent, Thomas Middleton and John Webster, Richard Montagu, and John Milton - the contributors to this volume enhance our understanding of the complex cultural contexts of early modern Anglophone writing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |18 pages
Protestant Propaganda and Regional Paranoia
John Awdeley and Early Elizabethan Print Culture
chapter |22 pages
The ‘Bardi Brytannorum'
Lodowick Lloyd and Welsh Identities in the Atlantic Archipelago
chapter |20 pages
Richard Nugent's Cynthia (1604)
A Catholic Sonnet Sequence in London, Westmeath and Spanish Flanders
chapter |18 pages
Purchasing Purgatory
Economic Theology, Archipelagic Colonialism and Anything for a Quiet Life (1621)
chapter |18 pages
‘Arminian is like a flying fish'
Region, Religion and Polemics in the Montagu Controversy, 1623–1626
chapter |16 pages
The Aston-Thimelby Circle at Home and Abroad
Localism, National Identity and Internationalism in the English Catholic Community
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chapter |18 pages
Reading Conversion Narratives as Literature of Trauma
Radical Religion, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Re-conquest of Ireland
