The Gothic ideology : religious hysteria and anti-Catholicism in British popular fiction, 1780-1880 /
The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an 'other' against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The 'Gothic ideology' is identified as an intense religious anxiety, p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2014
Wales UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2014 Cardiff, Wales : 2014 Cardiff, Wales 2014 |
| Series: | Gothic literary studies
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