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Ambitiously spanning two centuries and numerous source texts, Brian Lockey's Early Modern Catholics, Royalists and Cosmopolitans is a thorough and thought-provoking study into a newly emerging discourse on cosmopolitanism within England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries... Well-evidenced and intriguing, Lockey has produced a work that will be approached in years to come from many different disciplines. This book will be invaluable to any critics of religious identities, nation, and selfhood within the early modern period. - Sophie Jane Buckingham, University of East Anglia, Renaissance Studies The book as a whole is lively, interesting, and brings a welcome internationalist perspective to the study of early-modern English literature. Throughout, there is a welcome emphasis on Latinity (Osorio, Haddon, Campion) and on translation (Harington, Fanshawe) as parallel vehicles of international communication within Christian Europe... Each of [these chapters] teases out internationalist concerns within the works they cover. At the very least they remind us that even the most Protestant fictions in early modern England were not as straight-forwardly nationalist as recent scholarship might lead us to think. - Paul Arblaster, Saint-Louis University, Brussels, Reformation Lockey clearly emphasizes that 'English cosmopolitanism was first and foremost traditional and conservative' (314), although it served as a challenge to the emerging national narratives, and it contained the potential to be stripped of its more obviously conservative manifestations. It could be employed, for example, by writers who were working in the Protestant tradition, who introduced a transnational approach inherited from 'a prohibited ideology' (315). His monograph offers a careful exploration of early modern texts and a thought-provoking read for scholars working in the discipline of history as well as English literature. Katy Gibbons, University of Portsmouth, Renaissance Quarterly. Lockey's book is an important one that, in its pairing of canonical texts with less- studied texts from both England and the Continent, makes a valuable contribution to current conversations about religion, national identity, and political culture in early modern Europe. - Laurie Ellinghausen, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies

""Lockey clearly emphasizes that 'English cosmopolitanism was first and foremost traditional and conservative' (314), although it served as a challenge to the emerging national narratives, and it contained the potential to be stripped of its more obviously conservative manifestations. It could be employed, for example, by writers who were working in the Protestant tradition, who introduced a transnational approach inherited from 'a prohibited ideology' (315). His monograph offers a careful exploration of early modern texts and a thought-provoking read for scholars working in the discipline of history as well as English literature."" - Katy Gibbons, University of Portsmouth, Renaissance Quarterly. ""...it is wonderfully nuanced and never repetitive. More than that, it is resonant in ways which—given the long gestation of academic monographs – its author could hardly have predicted. At a time when most British and American academics find themselves at odds with the nationalistic discourse of their respective countries, ideals of transnational engagement have never seemed more topical or more appealing. One can applaud Lockey’s work for its timeliness."" - Alison Shell, University College London, UK ""Ambitiously spanning two centuries and numerous source texts, Brian Lockey’s Early Modern Catholics, Royalists and Cosmopolitans is a thorough and thought-provoking study into a newly emerging discourse on cosmopolitanism within England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries... Well-evidenced and intriguing, Lockey has produced a work that will be approached in years to come from many different disciplines. This book will be invaluable to any critics of religious identities, nation, and selfhood within the early modern period."" - Sophie Jane Buckingham, University of East Anglia, Renaissance Studies ""The book as a whole is lively, interesting, and brings a welcome internationalist perspective to the study of early-modern English literature. Throughout, there is a welcome emphasis on Latinity (Osorio, Haddon, Campion) and on translation (Harington, Fanshawe) as parallel vehicles of international communication within Christian Europe... Each of [these chapters] teases out internationalist concerns within the works they cover. At the very least they remind us that even the most Protestant fictions in early modern England were not as straight-forwardly nationalist as recent scholarship might lead us to think."" - Paul Arblaster, Saint-Louis University, Brussels, Reformation ""Lockey clearly emphasizes that 'English cosmopolitanism was first and foremost traditional and conservative' (314), although it served as a challenge to the emerging national narratives, and it contained the potential to be stripped of its more obviously conservative manifestations. It could be employed, for example, by writers who were working in the Protestant tradition, who introduced a transnational approach inherited from 'a prohibited ideology' (315). His monograph offers a careful exploration of early modern texts and a thought-provoking read for scholars working in the discipline of history as well as English literature."" Katy Gibbons, University of Portsmouth, Renaissance Quarterly. ""Lockey’s book is an important one that, in its pairing of canonical texts with less- studied texts from both England and the Continent, makes a valuable contribution to current conversations about religion, national identity, and political culture in early modern Europe."" - Laurie Ellinghausen, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies ""Early Modern Catholics, Royalties and Cosmopolitans powerfully reveals that cosmopolitanism is a much earlier phenomenon than seventeenth-and-eighteenth century critics have suggested. This is a well-argued and innovative book, generous in its attention to detail and its concern to establish clarity of purpose for its readership. Lockey ranges across genres, geograhies, and centuries with eloquent ease, alert to both the telling detail and the killing point. This is a book that will be invaluable to early modern academics interested in nation, religion, and identity formation, broadly conceived. It is also a book of enduring and impressive scholarship, as well as a very good read."" - Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, The Sixteenth Century Journal

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Brian C. Lockey is Professor of English Literature at St. John's University, USA. He is also the author of Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge, 2006).

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