TY - BOOK AU - Fenton,Elizabeth A. TI - Religious liberties: anti-Catholicism and liberal democracy in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture T2 - Imagining the Americas SN - 9780199893584 (ebook) : AV - PS217.P54 U1 - 810.938282 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Cultural pluralism in literature KW - Anti-Catholicism in literature KW - Religion and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Liberalism in literature KW - Democracy in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Early U.S. literary & cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom & pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384093.001.0001 ER -