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Author:

Fenton, Elizabeth A., 1978-

Title:

Religious liberties : anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / Elizabeth Fenton.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xi, 178 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Anti-Catholicism in literature.
Religion and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Liberalism in literature.
Democracy in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Privacy, pluralism, and anti-Catholic democracy -- Catholic Canadians and Protestant pluralism in the early republic -- Pleas for democracy : Federalism, expansionism, and nativism -- Papal persuasions : religious conversion and deliberative democracy -- This is my body politic : Catholic democracy and the limits of representation -- Haitian Catholicism and the end of pluralism -- Losing faith : ultramontane liberalism and democratic failure.

Series:

Imagining the Americas

ISBN:

0195384091 (acid-free paper)
9780195384093 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)643763153

LCCN:

2010025489

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)