By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society.

Jo Carruthers is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster, UK.

Acknowledgements \ Series Editors' Preface \ Introduction \ 1. The English Reformation and the Protestant Aesthetic \ 2. Secularizing the Protestant Aesthetic: Wordsworth, Eliot and Hardy \ 3. Contemporary Englishness and the Protestant Aesthetic \ 4. The Protestant Aesthetic and Islamophobia \ Bibliography \ Index