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The shamrock and the cross : Irish American novelists shape American Catholicism /

"In The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism, Eileen P. Sullivan traces changes in nineteenth-century American Catholic culture through a study of Catholic popular literature. Analyzing more than thirty novels spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1870...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sullivan, Eileen P., 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2016]
Subjects:
American fiction > Irish-American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Catholic authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Catholics > United States > Intellectual life.
Catholic fiction > History and criticism.
Catholic Church > In literature.
Catholics in literature.
Catholic Church.
American fiction.
American fiction > Catholic authors.
American fiction > Irish-American authors.
Catholic fiction.
Catholics > Intellectual life.
Literature.
United States.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The origins of American Catholic fiction
  • The Irish Americans: creating a memory of the past
  • American anti-Catholicism: the uses of prejudice
  • Catholics and religious liberty
  • The anti-Protestant novel
  • The church as family
  • The maternal priest
  • A woman's place: making the communal home
  • Catholics and economic success
  • American politics: Catholics as patriotic outsiders
  • Conclusion.