The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture

by Michael Wheeler

Book Overview

Divisions between Catholics and Protestants have been a feature of English history since the Reformation. Even into the industrial nineteenth century, age-old theological disagreements were the cause of religious and cultural conflicts. The Old Enemies asks why these ancient divisions were so deep, why they continued into the nineteenth century and how novelists and poets, theologians and preachers, historians and essayists reinterpreted the religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521292816
• ISBN13: 9780521292818
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"