A Political Biography of Frances Burney

Contenu

1. Introduction

2. After the Act of Emancipation: the position of Catholics in England in the Victorian era

3. Abjection and Catholicism: the dynamic of revulsion and attraction in Protestant depictions of

Catholicism

4. Perverts to Rome: Catholicism as a threat to gender roles and the Protestant family

5. The uncanny: the familiarity of Roman Catholicism and the foreignness of Anglo-Catholicism

6. Liberty and progress or authority and respect: the conflict of values in the historical novel

7. Conclusion