Abstract:Satires on various aspects of contemporary religion are frequently found in early Victorian editions of Punch . The more strident forms of Protestant evangelicalism in the 1840s and Roman Catholic revivalism in the early 1850s came in for particular attack. This pattern was partly the result of a drift in editorial policy towards a less radical social and political position. Catholicism, in both its Roman and Anglican varieties, was especially vulnerable to the combination of visual and verbal parody employed … Show more
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