Anti-Catholicism, Incorrigibility and Credulity in the Warming-Pan Scandal of 1688-9

John J McTague

doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12011

Anti-Catholicism, Incorrigibility and Credulity in the Warming-Pan Scandal of 1688-9

John J McTague

Department of English

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Exploring the conspiratorial fictions surrounding the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart, prince of Wales, in 1688, this article argues for the centrality of confessional language and feeling in the representation of the revolution of 1688-9. The warming-pan scandal and related fictions, I argue, use obscurity and a (perceived) lack of evidence as the starting-point for a kind of propaganda that relies heavily on the suspension of disbelief, ironically demanding readerly faith in a sceptical, satirical, iconoclastic and pseudo-scientific deconstruction of an invented plot which ridicules Catholics for their implicit faith.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	433-448
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume	36
Issue number	3
Early online date	21 Feb 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12011
Publication status	Published - Sept 2013

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Warming-pan scandal
1688
James Francis Edward Stuart
Old Pretender
John Dryden
James II
‘Glorious’ revolution
propaganda

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This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: MCTAGUE, J. (2013), Anti-Catholicism, Incorrigibility and Credulity in the Warming-Pan Scandal of 1688-9. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 36: 433–4489, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1754-0208.12011/abstract
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Anti-Catholicism, Incorrigibility and Credulity in the Warming-Pan Scandal of 1688-9

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