01725nam a2200361 a 4500 EDZ0000077192 StDuBDS 20150804193935.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110509s2011 nyu fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199893584 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PS217.P54 810.938282 22 Fenton, Elizabeth A., 1978- Religious liberties [electronic resource] : anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture / Elizabeth Fenton. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource. Imagining the Americas 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. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Print version 9780195384093 Imagining the Americas. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384093.001.0001 37645 37645