Books by Christopher (Ohio State University) Highley

Examines the ways in which Catholic writers between the reigns of Mary Tudor and James I fashioned their own competing discourses of national and cultural identity. Highley considers a range of writing produced by a diverse Catholic community: religious polemic, ecclesiastical histories, martyrologies, and correspondence.

Christopher Highley's study shows how writers from the English Renaissance produced a complex discourse about Ireland that cannot be reduced to a simple ethnic opposition. Highley argues that this interaction became a profound factor in the definition of an English poetic self.