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Literature and Theology 2004 18(1):49-61; doi:10.1093/litthe/18.1.49
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‘Really, Though Secretly, a Papist’: G.K. Chesterton's and J. Meade Falkner's Rewritings of the Gothic

Emma McEvoy

English Department, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE 14 6NW emma.mcevoy@zoom.co.uk

This article considers the rewriting of those Gothic conventions which are most symptomatic of Gothic anti-Catholicism in the works of Catholic-sympathising authors, J. Meade Falkner and G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922, creates a priest committed to divine rationality and exposes contemporary Protestant ‘superstition’. J. Meade Falkner’s Moonfleet, inspired by Gothic revivalism—a movement in many respects antithetical to the sentiments of the Gothic novel—rewrites the relations between father and son, past and present, individual and community.


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