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Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe

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Authors:
  1. Kevin Chovanec

    1. Christian Brothers University, Memphis, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: “But One Body”—Early Modern Transnational Protestantism and English Literature

    • Kevin Chovanec
    Pages 1-46

  3. The Dutch Revolt and the Pan-Protestant Literary Sphere

    • Kevin Chovanec
    Pages 47-103

  4. Henry, Prince of Wales, and Britain’s Lost Renaissance

    • Kevin Chovanec
    Pages 105-161

  5. “A League That Shall Not End till Thames and Rhine Leave off to Run”: Dreams of an Anglo-German Protestant Empire

    • Kevin Chovanec
    Pages 163-208

  6. Gustavus Adolphus, Circulation, and Liberty as a Heroic Virtue

    • Kevin Chovanec
    Pages 209-259

  7. Coda: Oliver Cromwell and the Legacy of Pan-Protestant Heroism

    • Kevin Chovanec
    Pages 261-272

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 273-283
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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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  • Christian Brothers University, Memphis, USA

    Kevin Chovanec

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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