Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism

Lowell Gallagher is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism ably demonstrates the profoundly experimental as well as recuperative character of early modern English Catholicism.

List of Illustrations Contributors * Introduction Lowell Gallagher PART I: SIGNPOSTS *"In Defense of Idolatry: Residual Catholic Culture and the Protestant Assault on the Sensuous in Early Modern England" Arthur F. Marotti *"'True and Perfect Relations': or, Identifying Henry Garnet and Leticia Wigington by Their Confessions" Frances E. Dolan *"Motion Rhetoric in Serial Conversion Narratives: Religion and Change in Early Modern England" Holly Crawford Pickett PART II: POETICS *"William Alabaster and the Palinode" Alison Shell *"Crashaw's Style" Richard Rambuss *"Alchemy, Repentance, and Recusant Allegory in Robert Southwell's St. Peters Complaint" Gary Kuchar *"Malengin and Mercilla, Southwell and Spenser: the Poetics of Tears and the Politics of Martyrdom in The Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto 9" Jennifer R. Rust PART III: COMMUNITIES *"'Honest Mirth and Merriment': Christmas and Catholicism in Early Modern England" Phebe Jensen *"Uncommon Prayer? Robert Southwell's Short Rule for a Good Life and Catholic Domestic Devotion in Post-Reformation England" Susannah Monta *"to seek out some Comforts and Companions of his own kind and condition': The Benedictine Rosary Confraternity and Chapel of Cardigan House, London" Anne Dillon *"Obedience and Consent: Thomas White and English Catholicism, 1640-1660" Stefania Tutino Index