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FENTON, E., Religious Liberties. Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture. Oxford University Press, 2011. 192p. Hardback. Series: Imagining the Americas. The author's thesis is that anti-Catholicism was one, if not the, defining factor in the development of American national identity from the Revolution to at least the end of the 19th century. She cites numerous authors of fiction and politics to illustrate her thesis, and she concludes that anti-Catholicism eventually revealed the limits and innate contradictions of American liberal democracy... This book provides ample justification for her thesis and is a pleasure to read. The Heythrop Review (Publisher's information). € 125.01 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780195384093