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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

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