Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary ImaginationIn Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening to break down borders separating American citizensor some representative Americanfrom a larger world beyond. While earlier studies of Catholicism in the American