Religious liberties [electronic resource] : anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / Elizabeth Fenton. Fenton, Elizabeth A., 1978- 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. PS217.P54 810.938282 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). 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. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384093.001.0001 eng Imagining the Americas Imagining the Americas. United States