TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dolan,Frances E.
TI  - Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, gender, and seventeenth-century print culture 
SN  - 080143629X
AV  - BX1492 .D65 1999
U1  - 305.6/2042/09032 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Ithaca, N.Y.
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Catholics
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Catholic women
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; "Home-Bred Enemies": Imagining Catholics --; 2; Searching the Bed: Jacobean Anti-Catholicism and the Scandal of Heterosociality --; 3; The Command of Mary: Marian Devotion, Henrietta Maria's Intercessions, and Catholic Motherhood --; 4; "The Wretched Subject the Whole Town Talks of": Elizabeth Cellier, Popish Plots, and Print
N2  - "In the seventeenth century, the largely Protestant nation of England was preoccupied with its Catholic subjects. They inspired more prolific and harsher criticism and more elaborate attempts at legal regulation than did any other minority group. To understand this phenomenon, Frances E; Dolan probes the verbal and visual representations of Catholics and Catholicism and the uses to which these were put during three crises in Protestant-Catholic relations: the gunpowder plot (1605), Queen Henrietta Maria's open advocacy of Catholicism in the 1630s and 1640s, and the popish and meal tub plots (1678-1680). She uses each crisis as a jumping-off point, an opportunity for speculation, as did contemporary writers; Drawing on political and legal writings and offering fresh readings of literary texts such as Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra, Dolan shows how often Catholics and Catholicism were linked to disorderly women."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -