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Religious Liberties - Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
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Religious Liberties - Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Imagining the Americas
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In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, U.S. literary and
cultural productions often presented Catholicism not only as a
threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy. Focusing
on representations of the Catholic as a political force, Elizabeth
Fenton argues that U.S. understandings of religious freedom grew
partly, and paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.
Depictions of Catholicism's imagined intolerance and cruelty
allowed U.S. writers time and again to depict their nation as
tolerant and free. As Religious Liberties shows, anti-Catholicism
particularly shaped U.S. conceptions of pluralism and its
relationship to issues as diverse as religious privacy, territorial
expansion, female citizenship, political representation, chattel
slavery, and governmental partisanship. Religious Liberties
examines a wide range of materials-from the Federalist Papers to
antebellum biographies of Toussaint Louverture; from nativist
treatises to Margaret Fuller's journalism; from convent exposes to
novels by Charles Brockden Brown, Catharine Sedgwick, Augusta J.
Evans, Nathanial Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville,
Henry Adams, and Mark Twain-to excavate anti-Catholicism's
influence on both the liberal tradition and early U.S. culture. In
concert, these texts reveal that Anti-Catholicism facilitated an
alignment of U.S. nationalism with Protestantism. Religious
Liberties shows that this alignment ultimately has ensured the
mutual dependence, rather than the "separation " we so often take
for granted, of church and state.
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