Overview
- Offers the first full study of the challenges posed to emerging English nationalism by the leaders of the international Protestant cause
- Considers poetry, plays, pamphlets, and religious writing as a connected literary history shared by Protestants throughout Northern Europe
- Suggests that a multilingual, transnational, and ideologically charged pan-Protestant literary field existed in the period
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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This book offers the first full study of the challenges posed to an emerging English nationalism that stemmed from the powerful appeal exerted by the leaders of the international Protestant cause. By considering a range of texts, including poetry, plays, pamphlets, and religious writing, the study reads this heroic tradition as a 'connected literary history,' a project shared by Protestants throughout Northern Europe, which opened up both collaboration among writers from these different regions and new possibilities for communal identification. The work’s central claim is that a pan-Protestant literary field existed in the period, which was multilingual, transnational, and ideologically charged. Celebrated leaders such as William of Orange posed a series of questions, especially for English Protestants, over the relationship between English and Protestant identity. In formulating their role as co-religionists, writers often undercut notions of alterity, rendering early modern conceptions of foreignness especially fluid and erasing national borders.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kevin Chovanec is an Assistant Professor at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, USA, where he teaches and writes about religious transnationalism and cultural exchange in early modern literature.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe
Authors: Kevin Chovanec
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40705-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40704-9Published: 20 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40707-0Published: 20 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40705-6Published: 19 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, History of Religion