The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785-1829
- ISBN-10
- 0708322786
- ISBN-13
- 9780708322789
- Category
- Anti-Catholicism
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Author
- Maria Purves
Description
The book is unique and ground-breaking in that it constitutes the first sustained analysis which comprehensively proves that a revision is required of the critical commonplace idea in Gothic scholarship that the roots of the Gothic novel should be seen within a late eighteenth-century popular anti-Catholicism.
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