Kramer, Kaley 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0394-1554
(2015)
Rethinking Surrender: Elizabeth Inchbald and the 'Catholic Novel'.
In: Barnard, Teresa, (ed.)
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 87-106
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Abstract
Published in the 1790s, but begun considerably earlier during the promise and upheaval of the 1770s and 80s, Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story (1791) negotiates the challenging terrain of religious difference at the end of the ‘Age of Enlightenment’. Inchbald’s experience of English Catholicism and her wide-ranging literary and cultural network inform her carefully-wrought narrative, which displays both the fond familiarity of personal experience and a clear sense of the complexity of religious doctrine and difference. A Simple Story is certainly not a sentimental defence of Catholicism – English or Roman – but neither does it attack Catholicism as threatening and foreign. Instead, Inchbald uses fiction to participate in debates about the future of religious freedom in Britain.
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| Additional Information: | "This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century on 14/07/2015, available online: https://www.routledge.com/products/isbn/9781472437457” |
| Status: | Published |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History |
| School/Department: | School of Humanities |
| URI: | https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/219 |
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