04502nam 2200685 450 991046610740332120200520144314.00-268-09303-20-268-09293-1(CKB)3710000000632856(EBL)4456537(SSID)ssj0001635067(PQKBManifestationID)16388237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001635067(PQKBWorkID)14910736(PQKB)10704162(MiAaPQ)EBC4456537(OCoLC)945874383(MdBmJHUP)muse52932(Au-PeEL)EBL4456537(CaPaEBR)ebr11177178(CaONFJC)MIL907630(EXLCZ)99371000000063285620160629h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe shamrock and the cross Irish American novelists shape American Catholicism /Eileen P. SullivanNotre Dame, Indiana :University of Notre Dame Press,2016.©20161 online resource (263 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-268-04152-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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 1870s, Sullivan elucidates the ways in which Irish immigration, which transformed the American Catholic population and its institutions, also changed what it meant to be a Catholic in America. In the 1830s and 1840s, most Catholic fiction was written by American-born converts from Protestant denominations; after 1850, most was written by Irish immigrants or their children, who created characters and plots that mirrored immigrants' lives. The post-1850 novelists portrayed Catholics as a community of people bound together by shared ethnicity, ritual, and loyalty to their priests rather than by shared theological or moral beliefs. Their novels focused on poor and working-class characters; the reasons they left their homeland; how they fared in the American job market; and where they stood on issues such as slavery, abolition, and women's rights. In developing their plots, these later novelists took positions on capitalism and on race and gender, providing the first alternative to the reigning domestic ideal of women. Far more conscious of American anti-Catholicism than the earlier Catholic novelists, they stressed the dangers of assimilation and the importance of separate institutions supporting a separate culture. Given the influence of the Irish in church institutions, the type of Catholicism they favored became the gold standard for all American Catholics, shaping their consciousness until well into the next century" --Provided by publisher.American fictionIrish-American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionCatholic authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismCatholicsUnited StatesIntellectual lifeCatholic fictionHistory and criticismCatholics in literatureElectronic books.American fictionIrish-American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionCatholic authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.CatholicsIntellectual life.Catholic fictionHistory and criticism.Catholics in literature.813/.3099415Sullivan Eileen P.1941-949687MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466107403321The shamrock and the cross2146520UNINA