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.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Purves, Purves Maria
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2009
• EAN: 9780708320914
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2091-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Gothic Literary Studies; Gothic Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 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