British Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History and National Identity, 1778-1829

by Michael Tomko (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $113.78

  The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period's most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic Emancipation, one of the romantic period's most contentious issues.