Fenton, Elizabeth A., 1978-
Religious liberties anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth Fenton. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource. - Imagining the Americas . - Imagining the Americas. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Early U.S. literary & cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom & pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.
9780199893584 (ebook) : No price
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Anti-Catholicism in literature.
Religion and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Liberalism in literature.
Democracy in literature.
PS217.P54
810.938282
Religious liberties anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth Fenton. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource. - Imagining the Americas . - Imagining the Americas. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Early U.S. literary & cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom & pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.
9780199893584 (ebook) : No price
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Anti-Catholicism in literature.
Religion and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Liberalism in literature.
Democracy in literature.
PS217.P54
810.938282