Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have constru

Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America.

In The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism, Eileen P. Sullivan traces changes in nineteenth-century American Catholic cu

Griffin analyses anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and America.

For more than two hundred years American Catholics have struggled to reconcile their national and religious values. In this incisive and accessible account, dis