Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy by Arthur F. Marotti - 9780268034795

Religious Ideology and Cultural FantasyCatholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England\nAuthor(s): Arthur F. Marotti\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268034795, 978-0268034795\nSynopsis\nIn this new book, Arthur F. Marotti analyzes some of the rhetorical and imaginative means by which the Catholic minority and the Protestant majority defined themselves and their religious and political antagonists in early modern England. He considers Catholic writings that have been relatively neglected, as well as the discourse of anti-Catholicism. Straddling the boundary of history and literature, this study offers an intriguing cultural history that focuses on the ideologized fantasies and language found on both sides of the early modern Christian religious divide. Marotti focuses on the period between the arrival of the first Jesuit missionaries in England in 1580 and the climax of ong.