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04481aam a2200553 i 4500 001 249115F66B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 160209s2016 inu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015047725 020 $a 0268041520 020 $a 9780268041526 035 $a (OCoLC)932387378 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS153.I78 S85 2016 082 00 $a 813/.3099415 $2 23 100 1 $a Sullivan, Eileen P., $d 1941- $e author. 245 14 $a The shamrock and the cross : $b Irish American novelists shape American Catholicism / $c Eileen P. Sullivan. 246 30 $a Irish American novelists shape American Catholicism 264 1 $a Notre Dame, Indiana : $b University of Notre Dame Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xi, 361 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism, Eileen P. Sullivan traces changes in nineteenth-century American Catholic culture through a study of Catholic popular literature. Analyzing more than thirty novels spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1870s, Sullivan elucidates the ways in which Irish immigration, which transformed the American Catholic population and its institutions, also changed what it meant to be a Catholic in America. In the 1830s and 1840s, most Catholic fiction was written by American-born converts from Protestant denominations; after 1850, most was written by Irish immigrants or their children, who created characters and plots that mirrored immigrants' lives. The post-1850 novelists portrayed Catholics as a community of people bound together by shared ethnicity, ritual, and loyalty to their priests rather than by shared theological or moral beliefs. Their novels focused on poor and working-class characters; the reasons they left their homeland; how they fared in the American job market; and where they stood on issues such as slavery, abolition, and women's rights. In developing their plots, these later novelists took positions on capitalism and on race and gender, providing the first alternative to the reigning domestic ideal of women. Far more conscious of American anti-Catholicism than the earlier Catholic novelists, they stressed the dangers of assimilation and the importance of separate institutions supporting a separate culture. Given the influence of the Irish in church institutions, the type of Catholicism they favored became the gold standard for all American Catholics, shaping their consciousness until well into the next century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction -- The origins of American Catholic fiction -- The Irish Americans: creating a memory of the past -- American anti-Catholicism: the uses of prejudice -- Catholics and religious liberty -- The anti-Protestant novel -- The church as family -- The maternal priest -- A woman's place: making the communal home -- Catholics and economic success -- American politics: Catholics as patriotic outsiders -- Conclusion. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Catholics $z United States $x Intellectual life. 650 0 $a Catholic fiction $x History and criticism. 610 20 $a Catholic Church $x In literature. 650 0 $a Catholics in literature. 610 27 $a Catholic Church. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00531720 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a American fiction $x Catholic authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807060 650 7 $a American fiction $x Irish-American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807079 650 7 $a Catholic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00849175 650 7 $a Catholics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00849332 650 7 $a Catholics $x Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00849314 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017024215.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826051553.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=249115F66B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search