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Monstrous Combinations of horrors and mockery? Southey, Catholicism and the Gothic

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Romanticism, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 25 - 38

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DOI (Published version): 10.3366/rom.2011.0005

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This article explores Robert Southey's ambivalence towards Roman Catholicism as expressed in his unjustly-neglected Gothic ballads, many of which used black humour to mock the pre-Reformation Church's corruption and greed. It argues that although he was an unashamed Anglican polemicist Sou...

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ISSN: 1354-991X
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