Political Biography of Frances Burney

Sommario

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lorna J Clark, Lorna J. Clark
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2016, ritardato
• EAN: 9781848931435
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-143-5
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies; Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata