Responding to recent historical analyses of Post-Reformation English Catholicism, the essays in this collection by both literary scholars and historians focus on polemical, devotional, political, and literary texts that dramatize the conflicts between context-sensitive Catholic and anti-Catholic discourses in early modern England. They foreground some major literary authors and canonical texts, but also examine non-canonical literature as well as other writings that embody ideological fantasies connecting the political and religious discourses of the time with their literary manifestations.

RONALD CORTHELL Associate Professor of English at Kent State University
FRANCIS DOLAN Associate Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio
SIMON HEALY Research Fellow at The History of Parliament Trust.
JOHN N. KING Professor of English, Ohio State University
ANTHONY MILTON teaches in the Department of History at The University of Sheffield
MICHAEL QUESTIER currently at the Westminster Diocesan Archive
ALISON SHELL teaches English at the University of Durham
JOHN WATKINS Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota
JULIAN YATES Assistant Professor of English at The University of Delaware

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Alienating Catholics in Early Modern England: Recusant Women, Jesuits, and Ideological Fantasies; A.F.Marotti Robert Persons and the Writer's Mission; R.Corthell Parasitic Geographies: Manifesting Catholic Identity in Early Modern England; J.Yates The Myth of Anti-Catholicism in Early Stuart England; A. Milton 'Out of her Ashes May a Second Phoenix Rise': James I and the Legacy of Elizabethan Anti-Catholicism; J. Watkins 'What's in a Name?': A Papist's Perception of Puritanism and Conformity in the Early Seventeenth Century; M.Questier and S.Healy Multiple Conversion and the Menippean Self: the Case of Richard Carpenter; A.Shell Milton's Paradise of Fools: Ecclesiastical Satire in Paradise Lost ; J.N.King 'The Wretched Subject the Whole Town Talks of': Representing Elizabeth Cellier (London, 1680); F.E.Dolan Index