Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter With Catholicism - Couverture souple

Franchot, Jenny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520086066 ISBN 13 : 9780520086067

Editeur : University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.

Franchot analyzes the effects of religious attitudes on historical ideas about America's origins and destiny. She then focuses on the popular tales of convent incarceration, with their Protestant "maidens" and lecherous, tyrannical Church superiors. Religious captivity narratives, like those of Indian captivity, were part of the ethnically, theologically, and sexually charged discourse of Protestant nativism.

Discussions of Stowe, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Lowell―writers who sympathized with "Romanism" and used its imaginative properties in their fiction―further demonstrate the profound influence of religious forces on American national character.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jenny Franchot is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520086066
• ISBN 13: 9780520086067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
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• Personne responsable: non disponible