Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Construction of an Anti-Catholic Ideology in the Nineteenth Century: Sexuality, Gender, Patriarchy and the Discourse of Fear

Chapter 3 Forgive Me Father: The Sacrament of Confession as a Means to Control and Debauch Young Girls and Women

Chapter 4 The Danger of Gliding Jesuits and the Effects of a Catholic Education

Chapter 5 Lifting the Veil: A Nineteenth-century Perception of Nuns and Convents

Chapter 6 Nineteenth-century Anti-Catholic Discourse in the Brontë’s Local Newspapers

Chapter 7 The Perceived Anti-Catholicism of Charlotte Brontë’s Novel: The Professor

Chapter 9 The Priestcraft of the Book: Representations of Catholicism in Villette

Chapter 10 Conclusion: A Discourse of Fear Engendered by the Rise of Roman Catholicism in Mid-nineteenth-century England