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Subject(s)

• Protestant literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• English literature—Protestant authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Heroes—Religious aspects [Browse]
• Heroes in literature [Browse]

Series

• Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) [More in this series]
• Early modern literature in history

Summary note

"A 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: "But one body"-- early modern transnational Protestantism and English literature
• The Dutch Revolt and the pan-Protestant literary sphere
• Henry, Prince of Wales, and Britain's lost Renaissance
• "A league that shall not end till Thamesand Rhine leave off to run": dreams of an Anglo-German Protestant empire
• Gustavus Adolphus, circulation, and liberty as a heroic virtue
• Coda: Oliver Cromwell and the legacy of pan-Protestant heroism.

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ISBN

• 9783030407049 ((hbk.))
• 3030407047 ((hbk.))

OCLC

1135570153

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