LEADER 04469nam 2200673 450 001 9910809353503321 005 20230808192335.0 010 $a0-268-09303-2 010 $a0-268-09293-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000632856 035 $a(EBL)4456537 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001635067 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16388237 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001635067 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14910736 035 $a(PQKB)10704162 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4456537 035 $a(OCoLC)945874383 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52932 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4456537 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11177178 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL907630 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000632856 100 $a20160629h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe shamrock and the cross $eIrish American novelists shape American Catholicism /$fEileen P. Sullivan 210 1$aNotre Dame, Indiana :$cUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-268-04152-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $a"In The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism, Eileen P. Sullivan traces changes in nineteenth-century American Catholic culture through a study of Catholic popular literature. Analyzing more than thirty novels spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1870s, Sullivan elucidates the ways in which Irish immigration, which transformed the American Catholic population and its institutions, also changed what it meant to be a Catholic in America. In the 1830s and 1840s, most Catholic fiction was written by American-born converts from Protestant denominations; after 1850, most was written by Irish immigrants or their children, who created characters and plots that mirrored immigrants' lives. The post-1850 novelists portrayed Catholics as a community of people bound together by shared ethnicity, ritual, and loyalty to their priests rather than by shared theological or moral beliefs. Their novels focused on poor and working-class characters; the reasons they left their homeland; how they fared in the American job market; and where they stood on issues such as slavery, abolition, and women's rights. In developing their plots, these later novelists took positions on capitalism and on race and gender, providing the first alternative to the reigning domestic ideal of women. Far more conscious of American anti-Catholicism than the earlier Catholic novelists, they stressed the dangers of assimilation and the importance of separate institutions supporting a separate culture. Given the influence of the Irish in church institutions, the type of Catholicism they favored became the gold standard for all American Catholics, shaping their consciousness until well into the next century" --$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xIrish American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xCatholic authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCatholics$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 606 $aCatholic fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCatholics in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xIrish American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xCatholic authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCatholics$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aCatholic fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCatholics in literature. 676 $a813/.3099415 700 $aSullivan$b Eileen P.$f1941-$01714998 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809353503321 996 $aThe shamrock and the cross$94109238 997 $aUNINA