Evangelines Mission:

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" Evangelines Mission: "
Andrew Higgins

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081407
Doc. No	:	LA125036
Call No	:	‭10.1163/107992609X12524941450163‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Andrew Higgins
Title & Author	:	Evangelines Mission: [Article] : Anti-Catholicism, Nativism, and Unitarianism in Longfellows Evangeline\ Andrew Higgins
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2009
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/4
Page No	:	547–568
Abstract	:	Though Evangeline has long been considered simply a love story, this article reads the poem as one deeply involved in both the theological and cultural struggles between the Catholic and Protestant churches in the antebellum period. The essay argues that Longfellow's poem about the Acadian Expulsion of 1755 imagines those Catholic refugees as successful immigrants to America. Further, the article argues that Longfellow's vision of Philadelphia at the end of the poem is that of an ideal, ecumenical Christian community, in which Catholicism is able to coexist with various Protestant churches. Thus the poem counters anti-Catholic nativist rhetoric that portrayed Catholics as fundamentally foreign and a threat to the Republic. However, the ecumenical nature of this vision is limited by the fact that Longfellow cannot imagine a fully-realized Catholic Church in the United States; his Catholic community lacks ecclesiastical hierarchy. As such, it reflects Longfellow's connection to the Unitarian Moralists, as group of Harvard Unitarians who sought to transform other denominations rather than to convert individuals to Unitarianism.
Descriptor	:	ACADIAN EXPULSION
Descriptor	:	ANTI-CATHOLICISM
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	EVANGELINE
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	NATIVISM
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	UNITARIANISM
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/107992609X12524941450163‬