The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785 - 1829

ISBN-13: 9780708320914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Maria Purves

Opis

This unique volume offers up a groundbreaking analysis: proof that a revision is required of the critical commonplace idea in gothic scholarship that the roots of the gothic novel belong within the popular anti-Catholicism of late eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing that despite the predominance of Catholic motifs in gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, and confessionals have long been interpreted as signifying subversiveness), the gothic was neither anti-Catholic nor anti-church, and instead part of a British culture much more sympathetic towards Catholicism during the long eighteenth century especially during and immediately following the French Revolution than has been previously supposed."