Region Religion and English Renaissance Literature

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. Chapter 1 Introduction, DavidColeman; Chapter 2 Protestant Propaganda and Regional Paranoia, PaulFrazer; Chapter 3 ‘Not Professed Therein’, David J.Baker; Chapter 4 The ‘Bardi Brytannorum’, StephenHamrick; Chapter 5 Richard Nugent’s Cynthia (1604), DeirdreSerjeantson; Chapter 6 Purchasing Purgatory, DavidColeman; Chapter 7 ‘ Arminian is like a flying fish’, AdrianStreete; Chapter 8 The Aston-Thimelby Circle at Home and Abroad, HelenHackett; Chapter 9 ‘Is this the Region … That we must change for Heav’n?’, Willy MaleyAdam Swann; Chapter 10 Reading Conversion Narratives as Literature of Trauma, NaomiMcAreavey;