Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780521833936 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 296 str.

Kentucky) Susan M. Griffin (University of Louisville

Opis

Susan Griffin analyzes the neglected body of anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and the U.S. Her examination reveals how Anglo-American anti-Catholic sentiment was distilled to provide Victorians with a set of political, cultural and literary "truths" through which they defined themselves as Protestant and, therefore, "normative." This book will be essential reading for scholars working on British Victorian literature as well as nineteenth-century American literature and will also interest scholars of literary, cultural and religious studies.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'One of the lessons of 9/11 is that we ignore the politics of religion at our peril. Today's conflicts regarding faith have long, complicated histories, which we are just beginning to learn how to read and understand. Susan M. Griffin's Anti-Catholicism in Nineteenth Century Fiction is a major contribution to this work: a new cultural history of religion.' John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates' Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern California

Spis treści

List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Awful disclosures: the escaped nun's tale; 2. The dead father and the rule of religion: the Oxford Movement; 3. The foreign father and the sons of the sires: nativist novels of the 1850s; 4. Mariolatry, imperial motherhood, and manhood; 6. Under which lord? Ritualism, marriage and the law; 6. Black robes, white veils and foregone conclusions: Disraeli, Howells and James; Reliquaries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.