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The lure of Babylon : seven Protestant novelists and Britain's Roman Catholic revival

Title
  1. The lure of Babylon : seven Protestant novelists and Britain's Roman Catholic revival / by Michael E. Schiefelbein.
Published by
  1. Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2001.
Author
  1. Schiefelbein, Michael E.

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Description
  1. 202 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Catholic Church > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  2. Catholic Church > In literature
  3. Catholic Church
  4. 1800-1899
  5. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  6. Christianity and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  7. English fiction > Protestant authors > History and criticism
  8. Protestantism and literature > History > 19th century
  9. Christian fiction, English > History and criticism
  10. Religious fiction, English > History and criticism
  11. Christian fiction, English
  12. Christianity and literature
  13. English fiction
  14. Literature
  15. Protestantism and literature
  16. Religious fiction, English
  17. Roman
  18. Katholizismus
  19. Protestantismus
  20. Geschichte 1820-1870
  21. Geschichte 1829-1850
  22. Great Britain
  23. Englisch
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction: Roman Catholic Revival and the British Cultural Imagination -- Ch. 1. "Unguarded Gaiety:" Catholicism in Walter Scott's The Monastery and The Abbot -- Ch. 2. "The Lessons of True Religion": May Shelley's Tribute to Catholicism in Valperga -- Ch. 3. Little Nell, Catholicism, and Dickens's Investigation of Death -- Ch. 4. "The Shelter of Authority": Frances Trollope's Concession to Catholicism in Father Eustace -- Ch. 5. A Catholic Baptism for Villette's Lucy Snowe -- Ch. 6. "Blighted" by a "Upas-Shadow": Catholicism, Gender, and Sensuality in Westward Ho! -- Ch. 7. Crucifixes and Madonnas: Catholicism and the Validation of Suffering in Romola.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-191) and index.