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The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880 (University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies)
The Gothic Ideology Religious Hysteria and AntiCatholicism in British Popular Fiction 17801880 - University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies
Author: Diane Long Hoeveler
Why have generations of readers been intrigued and entertained by tales of evil or persecuted nuns, lecherous monks, dank torture chambers, and haunted, ruined abbeys? The Gothic Ideology argues that the British Protestant imaginary, in order to modernize and secularize, needed an “other? against which it could define itself as a culture and a n...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781783160488
ISBN-10: 1783160489
Publication Date: 8/15/2014
Pages: 352
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Publisher: University of Wales Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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