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

Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 178 pages) Series Imagining the Americas Imagining the Americas. 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 Summary Early U.S. literary & cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom & pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-173) and index Notes Print version record 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Anti-Catholicism in literature Cultural pluralism in literature Democracy in literature Liberalism in literature Religion and literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199838394 0199838399 9780199893584 0199893586

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