Book Reviews

Book Reviews
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Total Pages: 688
Release: 1895
Genre: Bibliography, National
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Book News

Book News
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Total Pages: 628
Release: 1893
Genre: Philadelphia (Pa.)
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The Lure of Babylon

The Lure of Babylon
Author: Michael E. Schiefelbein
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780865547209

This book explores the effect of Catholicism on the imagination and the fiction of Protestant novelists in England during the decades surrounding Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the reestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England (1850). This book examines anti-Catholicism in popular and respected novelists such as Scott and Dickens, showing the secret attraction to Catholicism of staunch anti-Catholic Protestants.