Political Biography of Frances Burney

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. After the Act of Emancipation: the position of Catholics in England in the Victorian era
3. Abjection and Catholicism: the dynamic of revulsion and attraction in Protestant depictions of
Catholicism
4. Perverts to Rome: Catholicism as a threat to gender roles and the Protestant family
5. The uncanny: the familiarity of Roman Catholicism and the foreignness of Anglo-Catholicism
6. Liberty and progress or authority and respect: the conflict of values in the historical novel
7. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Lorna J Clark, Lorna J. Clark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.03.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9781848931435
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-143-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies; Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education