Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Griffin analyses anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and America.

Susan M. Griffin (Author)

9780521093521, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2009

296 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

Review of the hardback: 'One of the lessons of 9/11 is that we ignore the politics of religion at our peril. Today's conflicts regarding faith have long, complicated histories, which we are just beginning to learn how to read and understand. Susan M. Griffin's Anti-Catholicism in Nineteenth Century Fiction is a major contribution to this work: a new cultural history of religion.' John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates' Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern California

Susan Griffin uncovers and analyses the important but neglected body of anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and Am]