Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature / Maureen Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Maureen.

Series:

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 49.

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Sensationalism in literature.

Catholic Church--In literature.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian sensationalism through the exploration of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism, that exotic, corrupt religious Other which is inscribed as the implacable anti-English enemy. The book demonstrates how new understandings of cultural tensions of the period are gained through the association of Roman Catholicism with secular fears of crime, sex and violence, rather than with theological 'excesses' and doctrinal 'superstitions'.

Contents:

Sensational invasions: The jesuit, the state and the family Charles Kingsley Westward ho! and Wilkie Collins's The black rob

Nuns and Priests: Sensations of the cloister Charlotte Bronte's Villette and the monologues of Robert Browning

Persecution and martyrdom: The law and the body Grace Aguilar's The vale of cedars, or The martyr and George Eliot's Romola

Feeling the great change: Conversion and the authority of affect Benjamin Disraeli's Lothair, J.H. Shorthouse's John inglesant and Mary Ward's Helbeck of bannisdale

Art Catholicism and the New Catholic Baroque the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Francis Thompson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-310) and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-629-3

1-84631-276-0

OCLC:

476209746