... , foregrounded issues on scientific antitheism by presenting Christianity in a dubious light, present, but altogether powerless...'2 A late Romantic example of this exists in the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin, a narrative that suggested an argument for social change in early nineteenth century Britain, reproving Roman Catholicism in favour of the virtues of Protestantism. The instability of theology offered Gothic ... .'33 Religion can also be examined through acts of sin and punishment, principles portrayed in the Coleridge poems, Dracula and The Bloody Cham...

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