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8910js9769k	Michael Alan Tomko	The Catholic Question in British Romantic Literature: National Identity, History, and Religious Politics, 1778-1829	2005		.txt	text/plain	357	7	0	While Catholic emancipation's advocates hoped to quell Irish Catholic unrest, advance the cause of parliamentary reform, or break the Establishment alliance of Church and State, both opponents (like Southey) and proponents (like Shelley and Byron) were anxious about the prospective 'return' of a Catholic Other, often denigrated as primitive or superstitious, into a nation that imagined itself as Protestant, modern, and free. This analysis thus complements studies of the role of romantic era anti-Catholicism in constructing 'Britishness,' a sense of national identity that united Britain's domestic regions and its foreign empire.	cache/8910js9769k.txt	txt/8910js9769k.txt