Catholicism and American borders in the Gothic literary imagination / Farrell O'Gorman.

"In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening...

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Main Author: O'Gorman, Farrell (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
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