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    Walpole claimed that his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto was a translation of a 16th century Italian text written by a Catholic priest, though it was likely his own work. This helped establish Gothic fiction as originating from buried Roman Catholic influences, with Gothic works often seen as expressing anti-Catholic sentiments through their hysterical depictions of religion. The chapter discusses how Gothic ideology and anti-Catholic discourse were interwoven in popular British fiction from 1780 to 1880.

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    Walpole claimed that his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto was a translation of a 16th century Italian text written by a Catholic priest, though it was likely his own work. This helped establish Gothic fiction as originating from buried Roman Catholic influences, with Gothic works often seen as expressing anti-Catholic sentiments through their hysterical depictions of religion. The chapter discusses how Gothic ideology and anti-Catholic discourse were interwoven in popular British fiction from 1780 to 1880.

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    Walpole claimed that his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto was a translation of a 16th century Italian text written by a Catholic priest, though it was likely his own work. This helped establish Gothic fiction as originating from buried Roman Catholic influences, with Gothic works often seen as expressing anti-Catholic sentiments through their hysterical depictions of religion. The chapter discusses how Gothic ideology and anti-Catholic discourse were interwoven in popular British fiction from 1780 to 1880.

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    Walpole claimed that his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto was a translation of a 16th century Italian text written by a Catholic priest, though it was likely his own work. This helped establish Gothic fiction as originating from buried Roman Catholic influences, with Gothic works often seen as expressing anti-Catholic sentiments through their hysterical depictions of religion. The chapter discusses how Gothic ideology and anti-Catholic discourse were interwoven in popular British fiction from 1780 to 1880.

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    6,
    ISBN = {9781783160488},
    URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qhfdt.6},
    abstract = {Gothic fiction has frequently been seen as originating in a Catholic
    closet, specifically the buried Roman Catholic heritage of Horace Walpole, author
    of the first Gothic novel,The Castle of Otranto(1764), and descendant of a martyred
    Jesuit (McWhir, 1989: 37). When Walpole claimed in the Preface to the first edition
    of his anonymously published novel that the work was a translation of a sixteenth-
    century Italian book written by an Italian priest, ‘Canon of the Church of St.
    Nicholas at Otranto’, and ‘found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in
    the north of England’ (Walpole 1998: 5), he},
    author = {Diane Long Hoeveler},
    booktitle = {The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in
    British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880},
    edition = {1},
    pages = {15--50},
    publisher = {University of Wales Press},
    title = {Anti-Catholicism and the Gothic Ideology: Interlocking Discourse
    Networks},
    year = {2014}
    }

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