Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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Cambridge University Press, 2004 M07 29 - 284 pages
Griffin analyzes the important but neglected body of anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the 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. 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.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Awful diselosures the escaped nuns tale
27
The dead father and the rule of religion the Oxford Movement
62
The foreign father and the tom of the sires nativist novels of the 18505
91
Mariolatry imperial motherhood and manhood
114
Under wbich lord? Ritualism marriage and the law
153
Black robes wbite veils and foregone conelusious Dismeli Howells and James
179
Reliquaries
207
Notes
218
Bibliogmphy
255
Index
273
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Susan M. Griffin is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Louisville. She is the editor of the Henry James Review and author and editor of numerous works including The Art of Criticism, The Historical Eye, and Henry James Goes to the Movies.

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