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

by Maria Purves

This unique volume offers up a groundbreaking analysis: proof that a revision is required of the critical commonplace idea in gothic scholarship that the roots of the gothic novel belong within the popular anti-Catholicism of late eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing that despite the predominance of Catholic motifs in gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, and confessionals have long been interpreted as signifying subversiveness), the gothic was neither...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708320910
• ISBN13: 9780708320914
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"