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"This book constitutes the first sustained analysis that 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. Whereas scholarship has always maintained that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and his/her audience, this study argues that the Gothic was neither anti-Catholic nor anti-Church, and that England was much more sympathetic towards Catholicism during the long eighteenth-century - particularly during and immediately after the French Revolution - that was previously been supposed."--Jacket

Author

Purves, Maria

Publisher

University of Wales Press; Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780708320907

Subjects

Travel, History, Literary Fiction