The Gothic Ideology
Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880
Distributed for University of Wales Press
The Gothic Ideology
Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880
352 pages | 9 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2014
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Anti-Catholicism and the Gothic Ideology: Interlocking Discourse Networks
2. The Construction of the Gothic Nun: Fantasies and the Religious Imaginary
3. The Spectre of Theocracy: Mysterious Monks and ‘Priestcraft’
4. The Foreign Threat: Inquisitions, Autos-de-Fé and Bloody Tribunals
5. Ruined Abbeys: Justifying Stolen Property and the Crusade against Superstition
Epilogue: The Penny Dreadful and the (Almost) Last Gasp of the Gothic Ideology
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix: Anti-Catholic/Gothic Titles
Index
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