The Gothic and Catholicism

Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785-1829

von Maria Purves

192 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: University of Wales Press
• ISBN: 9780708320914
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2009
• Größe: 216 x 138 mm
• Verlag: University of Wales Press - IPSUK