Book: Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
A book that explores how "Catholicism was often presented in the U.S. not only as a threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy": Elizabeth Fenton (University of Vermont), "Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture" (Oxford University Press, March 2011).
Quote (chapter 3): "Antebellum captive nun tales such as Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of the Hôtel Dieu Nunnery in Montreal (1836) present the Church as a master of argument and suggest that an antidemocratic group could gain control over public opinion through debate."
(chapter 6) "[F]igurations of a rigid and dogmatic Catholicism facilitated Adams’s and Twain’s parodies of democratic praxis. While both Adams and Twain rehearse anti-Catholic rhetoric typical of nineteenth-century U.S. public culture, they do so to critique the absolutism that they viewed as being central to the liberal tradition."
A book that explores how "Catholicism was often presented in the U.S. not only as a threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy": Elizabeth Fenton (University of Vermont), "Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture" (Oxford University Press, March 2011).
Quote (chapter 3): "Antebellum captive nun tales such as Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of the Hôtel Dieu Nunnery in Montreal (1836) present the Church as a master of argument and suggest that an antidemocratic group could gain control over public opinion through debate."
(chapter 6) "[F]igurations of a rigid and dogmatic Catholicism facilitated Adams’s and Twain’s parodies of democratic praxis. While both Adams and Twain rehearse anti-Catholic rhetoric typical of nineteenth-century U.S. public culture, they do so to critique the absolutism that they viewed as being central to the liberal tradition."
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