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Article: Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.(Book review)
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- Christianity and Literature
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- January 1, 2006
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Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. By Susan M. Griffin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521833930. Pp. 284. $75.
In recent years, religious issues have increasingly informed critical approaches to nineteenth-century British and American literature. Susan M. Griffins book is an often groundbreaking study, particularly in its readings of gender, ethnicity, and race in anti-Catholic fiction. Classifying a range of anti-Catholic tropes and narrative elements, this study will be of most interest to scholars of the nineteenth-century British or American novel; yet many of the tropes she identifies continue to operate in some form beyond ...