The instability of theology offered Gothic Literature the confidence to query the supremacy of religion in text, for example in The Monk, where there is, 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 and temptation. ...

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