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Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature / Maureen Moran.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moran, Maureen (Maureen Frances)
- Series:
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 49.
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 49
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--In literature.
- Catholic Church.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Sensationalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Exotic, corrupt, and dangerous, Roman Catholicism functioned in the popular Victorian imagination as a highly sensationalized and implacably anti-English enemy. Maureen Moran' s lively study considers a wide range of key authors- including Charlotte Brontë , Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, as well as a number of non-canonical writers- to give a detailed account of the cultural tensions between Catholics and Protestants. Moran shows that rather than representing a traditional religious schism, the demonizing of Catholics resulted from secular fears over crime, sex, and violence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [292]-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1846310709
- 9781846310706
- OCLC:
- 75714016
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