Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Brontë

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Construction of an Anti-Catholic Ideology in the Nineteenth-Century: Sexuality, Gender, Patriarchy and the Discourse of Fear Forgive me Father: The Perception of the Sacrament of Confession as a Means to Control and Debauch Young Girls and Women The Danger of Gliding Jesuits and the Effects of a Catholic Education Lifting the Veil: A Nineteenth-Century Perception of Nuns and Convents Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourse in the Brontë's Local Newspaper The Perceived Anti-Catholicism of Charlotte Brontë's Novel, The Professor Jane Eyre : Anti-Catholic or Anti-Christian Novel? Shirley : A Social Novel The Priestcraft of the Book: Representations of Catholicism in Villette Conclusion. A discourse of Fear Engendered by the Rise of Roman Catholicism in Mid Nineteenth-Century England Bibliography and Sources Index