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MATHEW CAREY AND THE PUBLIC EMERGENCE OF
CATHOLICISM IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC
by
Michael Steven Carter
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
December 2006
Copyright 2006 Michael Steven Carter
Object Description
| Title | Mathew Carey and the public emergence of Catholicism in the Early Republic |
| Author | Carter, Michael Steven |
| Author email | msc@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-10-23 |
| Date submitted | 2006 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2006-12-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Shammas, Carole |
| Abstract | This dissertation focuses on the emergence of a public Catholic culture in the first years of the early American republic and examines aspects of Catholic-Protestant relations during the last three decades of the eighteenth century. Revising existing interpretations, it argues that both clerical and lay Catholics, chief among them the printer Mathew Carey, carefully negotiated the first Catholic presence in the public sphere through the medium of print. This early Catholic culture appropriated "enlightened" rhetoric and modes of expression in order to critique the anti-Catholic legacy of the Colonial period that viewed Catholicism as a remnant of the "Dark Ages" and incompatible with republicanism. I argue that this pervasive historical view of Catholicism as anti-progressive is key to understanding the persistence of anti-Catholicism in the history-conscious early republic. Catholics of this era strove to define the public face of the Church in America as sympathetic to the dominant values of the founding generation, and to dispute Whig historical views of Catholicism's role in history, especially the history of England and then Britain. In this era, I argue, anti-Catholicism can be viewed as primarily ideological in nature.; Mathew Carey's brand of republican Catholicism brought from Ireland in the 1780s provided an existing model for this experiment, and like-minded American-born Catholics such as first bishop John Carroll also attempted to carefully control perceptions of the new church as "foreign." This was achieved through printed statements addressed to American Catholics, to President Washington, in responses to renegade or outspoken Catholic clergy, through Catholic devotional and instructional publications, the printing and marketing of the first Douai Bible in America, critiques of Whig history, and in Carey's participation in an extended newspaper controversy sparked by a derogatory reference to Catholic doctrine made by a politician.; By the time of Carey's death in 1839, this experiment in enlightened, republican Catholicism ended, as the Church, facing renewed anti-Catholicism that arose in reaction to massive ethnic Catholic immigration, ghettoized itself into an enclosed sub-culture increasingly viewed as dominated by "foreign" clerical leadership. |
| Keyword | Catholicism |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m214 |
| Rights | Carter, Michael Steven |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Carter-20061204 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Carter-20061204.pdf |
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| Full text | MATHEW CAREY AND THE PUBLIC EMERGENCE OF CATHOLICISM IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC by Michael Steven Carter A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) December 2006 Copyright 2006 Michael Steven Carter |
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