Religious Liberties Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U. S. Literature and Culture |
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Author:
| Fenton, Elizabeth |
Series title: | Imagining the Americas Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-538409-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $135.00 |
Book Description:
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Early and nineteenth-century U.S. literary and cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Through analysis of a wide range of texts, Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom and pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.
Early and nineteenth-century U.S. literary and cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Through analysis of a wide range of texts, Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom and pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.