The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785 - 1829
(Part of the Gothic Literary Studies Series and Gothic Literary Studies Series)
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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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0708320910
ISBN13:9780708320914
Release Date:January 2010
Publisher:University of Wales Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"
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