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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Maria Purves, Purves Maria
• Edition: University of Wales Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 26.09.2009
• EAN: 9780708320914
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2091-4
• Pages: 192
• Thèmes: Gothic Literary Studies; Gothic Literary Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; 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