The Gothic Ideology : Religious Hysteria and anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Gothic Literary Studies
ISBN-10
1783160489
ISBN-13
9781783160488
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2014
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
584 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 22.20 x 3.40 cms
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This book explores why lecherous monks, evil nuns, dank torture chambers and haunted abbeys have filled the pages of gothic novels for two hundred years.
Why have generations of readers been intrigued and entertained by tales of evil or persecuted nuns, lecherous monks, dank torture chambers, and haunted, ruined abbeys? The Gothic Ideology argues that the British Protestant imaginary, in order to modernize and secularize, needed an other against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The Gothic Ideology is the first scholarly book to examine the literary and historical origins and uses of these themes, analyzing at the same time their importance in gothic literatures intended for the British lower and middle classes from 1780 to 1880.
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