Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Development of a Protestant Aesthetic for a Diverse Nation

In “Charlestown,” an historical sketch from her 1871 collection New-England Legends, Harriet Prescott Spofford examines the contest between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism that shaped Americans’ understanding of democracy as well as Spofford’s understanding of her role as an author in an increas...

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Main Author: Paula Kot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2019-10-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/14895
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