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

Informationen zum Autor Dr Maria Purves is a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College! University of Cambridge. Klappentext Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic! anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks! nuns! abbeys! confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience. Zusammenfassung Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic! anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks! nuns! abbeys! confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Maria Purves, Purves Maria
• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2009
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• EAN: 9780708320914
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2091-4
• Anzahl Seiten: 192
• Serie: Gothic Literary Studies; Gothic Literary Studies
• Themen: Religion, Gothic, Cultural, popular, Exchange, Catholicism, Literary studies: general, Novel, 1829, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, 1785