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The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785 - 1829 (University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies)
Maria Purve
Hardcover. University of Wales Pre 2010-01-15.
ISBN 9780708320914
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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
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