Gothic and Catholicism
"The Gothic novel transports you to a strange and fascinating world quite unlike your own, far away from the calm drawing rooms of Regency England. It is the ultimate escapist literature. It is this world, and its mutually beneficial relationship with Catholicism, that Dr Maria Purves so beautifully illuminates for the reader." The Tablet, May 2010
This book constitutes the first sustained analysis that comprehensively proves that revision is required of the critical commonplace idea in Gothic scholarship that the roots of the Gothic novel should be seen within a late eighteenth century popular anti-Catholicism. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Wales Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780708320914
- Utgivelsesår
- 2009
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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"The Gothic novel transports you to a strange and fascinating world quite unlike your own, far away from the calm drawing rooms of Regency England. It is the ultimate escapist literature. It is this world, and its mutually beneficial relationship with Catholicism, that Dr Maria Purves so beautifully illuminates for the reader." The Tablet, May 2010