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The Gothic and Catholicism : Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785 - 1829
by Maria Purves
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780708320914
- ISBN-10: 0708320910
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publish Date: January 2010
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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