Elizabeth Fenton: 1 book
Religious Liberties
Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Catholicism was often presented in the U.S. not only as a threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy. Focusing on literary and cultural representations of Catholics as a political force, Elizabeth Fenton argues that the U.S. perception...
