LEADER 04432oam 22006614a 450 001 9910806809703321 005 20181130030107.0 010 $a0-268-10220-1 010 $a0-268-10219-8 035 $a(CKB)4340000000195804 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4987507 035 $a(OCoLC)999401068 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse60146 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000195804 100 $a20170726d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCatholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination /$fFarrell O'Gorman 210 $aNotre Dame $cUniversity of Notre Dame Press$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (339 pages) 311 $a0-268-10217-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"In Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening to break down borders separating American citizens--or some representative American--from a larger world beyond. While earlier studies of Catholicism in the American literary imagination have tended to highlight the faith's historical association with Europe, O'Gorman stresses how that imagination often responds to a Catholicism associated with Latin America and the Caribbean. On a deeper level, O'Gorman demonstrates how the Gothic tradition he traces here builds on and ultimately transforms the persistent image in modern Anglophone literature of Catholicism as "a religion without a country; indeed, a religion inimical to nationhood." O'Gorman focuses on the work of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy, and selected contemporary writers including Toni Morrison. These authors, representing historical periods from the early republic to the present day, have distinct experiences of borders within and around their nation and hemisphere, itself an ever-emergent "America." As O'Gorman carefully documents, they also have distinct experiences of Catholicism and distinct ways of imagining the faith, often shaped at least in part within the Church itself. In their narratives, Catholicism plays a complicated and profound role that ultimately challenges longstanding notions of American exceptionalism and individual autonomy. This analysis contributes not only to discourse regarding Gothic literature and nationalism but also to a broader ongoing dialogue regarding religion, secularism, and American literature"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General$2bisacsh 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance$2bisacsh 606 $aRELIGION / Christianity / Catholic$2bisacsh 606 $aRELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts$2bisacsh 606 $aCatholic fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCatholics in literature 606 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aReligion and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance. 615 7$aRELIGION / Christianity / Catholic. 615 7$aRELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts. 615 0$aCatholic fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNationalism and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aCatholics in literature. 615 0$aGothic revival (Literature)$xHistory . 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813/.087290938282 686 $aREL013000$aREL010000$aLIT004180$aLIT008000$2bisacsh 700 $aO'Gorman$b Farrell$01713845 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806809703321 996 $aCatholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination$94107148 997 $aUNINA