Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 15581660
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780521032148
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Eastern European
First sentence: Nauseated with murder and steeped in unspoken guilt, the protagonist at the end of Donna Tartt's Secret History finds that only one fictional genre speaks to his condition.