
Roads to Rome
The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism
Jenny Franchot(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 3. March 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-520-08606-7 (ISBN)
Description
The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.
Franchot analyzes the effects of religious attitudes on historical ideas about America's origins and destiny. She then focuses on the popular tales of convent incarceration, with their Protestant "maidens" and lecherous, tyrannical Church superiors. Religious captivity narratives, like those of Indian captivity, were part of the ethnically, theologically, and sexually charged discourse of Protestant nativism.
Discussions of Stowe, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Lowell-writers who sympathized with "Romanism" and used its imaginative properties in their fiction-further demonstrate the profound influence of religious forces on American national character.
Franchot analyzes the effects of religious attitudes on historical ideas about America's origins and destiny. She then focuses on the popular tales of convent incarceration, with their Protestant "maidens" and lecherous, tyrannical Church superiors. Religious captivity narratives, like those of Indian captivity, were part of the ethnically, theologically, and sexually charged discourse of Protestant nativism.
Discussions of Stowe, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Lowell-writers who sympathized with "Romanism" and used its imaginative properties in their fiction-further demonstrate the profound influence of religious forces on American national character.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Ill.
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08606-7 (9780520086067)
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Jenny Franchot is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.