Treacherous faith: the specter of heresy in early modern English literature and culture

Introduction

Part I : The specter of heresy and religious conflict in English Reformation literary culture

Religious demonization, anti-heresy polemic, and Thomas More

Anne Askew and the culture of heresy-hunting in Henry VIII's England

Burning heretics and fashioning martyrs : religious violence in John Foxe and Reformation England

The specter of heretics in later Elizabethan and Jacobean writing

Part II : The war against heresy in Milton's England

The specter of heresy and blasphemy in the English Revolution : from heresiographers to the spectacle of James Nayler

The specter of heresy and the struggle for toleration : John Goodwin, William Walwyn, and Richard Overton

John Milton : toleration and "Fantastic terrors of sect and schism"

Fears of heresy, blasphemy, and religious schism in Milton's culture and Paradise lost

Epilogue : making heretics and Bunyan's Vanity Fair.