Popular anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England
This work sets out to examine Victorian anti-Catholicism in a much fuller and more inclusive context, accounting for its persistence over time, disguishing it from anti-Irish sentiment, and explaining its social, economic, political, and religious bases locally as well as nationally.
Print Book, English, 1992
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, 1992
Church history
332 p. ill. 25 cm
9780804719841, 0804719845
1088148497
Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Organized anti-catholic protest; 2. Cultural images; 3. Militant roman catholicism; 4. Defensive anglicanism; 5. The tractarian factor; 6. Nonconformity in tension; 7. Anti-catholicism as a political issue; 8. Bonfires, revels, and riots; 9. Who were the anti-catholics?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.