The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880
ISBN: 9781783160495
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Wales Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

This book explores why lecherous monks, evil nuns, dank torture chambers and haunted abbeys have filled the pages of gothic novels for two hundred years.


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