The papist represented : literature and the English Catholic community, 1688-1791 /

The Papist Represented situates eighteenth-century literature within the history and culture of the English Catholic community and its interactions with the nation's Protestant majority. It demonstrates Catholic influence on some of the period's most popular and experimental literary works...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carnes, Geremy (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2017]
Subjects:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature > Catholic authors > History and criticism. Catholics in literature. Catholics > England > History > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
"Allways in a veile": Catholic difference in Dryden's Don Sebastian
"To act a lover's or a Roman's part": Catholic division in Pope's Eloisa to Abelard and Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady
"The French behaviour under the Mahometan dress": Defoe's Roxana and England's Catholic captivity
"Left to perdition": Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison and the papist unrepresented
"Let not religion be named between us": Catholic and female oppression in Inchbald's A simple story
Afterword.