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

By the middle of the nineteenth century much clearly gendered, anti-Catholic literature was produced for the Protestant middle classes. Nineteenth Century Anti-Catholic Discourses explores how this writing generated a series of popular Catholic images and looks toward the cultural, social and historical foundation of these representations. Diana Peschier places the novels of Charlotte Bront within the framework of Victorian social ideologies, in particular the climate created by rise of anti-Catholicism, providing an alternative reading of her work.

Diana Peschier is an independent researcher in nineteenth-century literature and religion.