Anti-Catholicism and nineteenth-century fiction by Griffin, Susan M., 1953- instant download

Anti-Catholicism and nineteenth-century fiction by Griffin, Susan M., 1953- instant download

ix, 284 pages : 24 cm, \"Susan Griffin uncovers and analyzes the important but neglected body of anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the beginning of the twentieth century in both Britain and America. Griffin examines Anglo-American anti-Catholicism and reveals how this sentiment was distilled to provide Victorians with a set of political, cultural, and literary tropes through which they defined themselves as Protestant and therefore normative. Griffin examines and broad range of writers including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Kingsley, Henry James, Charlotte Bronte and a variety of lesser-known authors. She traces how nineteenth-century writers constructed a Church of Rome against which \"America,\" \"Britain,\" and \"Protestant\" might be identified and critiqued. This book will be essential reading for scholars working on British Victorian literature as well as nineteenth-century American literature; it will be of interest to scholars of literary, cultural, and religious studies.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index, Awful disclosures: the escaped nun's tale -- The dead father and the rule of religion: the Oxford movement -- The foreign father and the sons of the sires: nativist novels of the 1850s -- Mariolatry, imperial motherhood, and manhood -- Under which lord? Ritualism, marriage, and the law -- Black robes, white veils, and foregone conclusions: Disraeli, Howells, and James -- Reliquaries