Title The Gothic and Catholicism : religion, cultural exchange and the popular novel, 1785-1829 / Maria Purves.

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Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Gothic literary studies
	Gothic literary studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-222) and index.
Contents	'A compliment to be called Papist'? English toleration of Catholicism in the later eighteenth century -- Roman(ticized) Catholicism in literature and culture in the eighteenth century -- The cloister theme in Lewis and Radcliffe -- The Gothic nun and the promotion of devotion -- The monk as hero, the hero as monk.
Summary	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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Subject	Gothic literature -- History and criticism.
	Gothic literature.
	Anti-Catholicism in literature -- History.
	Anti-Catholicism in literature.
	History.
	Gothic literature -- Themes, motives.
	Themes, motives.
	Anti-Catholicism -- England -- History -- 18th century.
	Anti-Catholicism.
	England.
Chronological Term	18th century
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Purves, Maria. Gothic and Catholicism. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2009 9780708320914 (OCoLC)318874108
ISBN	9780708322789 (electronic book)
	0708322786 (electronic book)

Title The Gothic and Catholicism : religion, cultural exchange and the popular novel, 1785-1829 / Maria Purves.

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