Description:
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.
Brief description:
Ronald Corthell is professor of English at Purdue University Northwest. He is co-editor of Catholic Culture in Early Modern England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
Review Quotes:
"This volume makes clear . . . that the recovery of the stray and sparse bric-a-brac of contemporary Catholic culture is not cultural or literary antiquarianism. It may not be clear at first how such objects (buildings, letters, spiritual and imaginative writings of various kinds, relics, vestments, etc.) fit into an overall account of post-Reformation Catholicism in England, but it is evident enough that explaining how they were created and how they survived tells us a great deal about English Catholics' self-image, often in ways that cannot be recovered from other sources." --Modern Philology