... , according to critic David Stephens '...in effect a conflation of Roman Catholicism and blind superstition.'3 Both here and in the character of Father Jerome in Walpole's archetypical The Castle of Otranto, Gothic authors have presented religious representatives as morally injudicious, their irresolute personas open to corruption ... apos;Christianity is portrayed in a positive light throughout Dracula'12. Likewise, Coleridge's early life was dictated by his father's aspiration for him to pursue the religious ideal. The son of an Anglican vicar, Coleridge vacillated from supporting to cr...

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