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Author Moran, Maureen, author.

Title Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature / Maureen Moran
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages)
Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; 49
Liverpool English texts and studies ; 49.
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
Summary Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian cultural and social conventions through readings of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism. Maureen Moran argues that Catholic sensationalism provided a rich imaginative resource for Victorians of all denominations (and none) through which a range of cultural contradictions and conflicts could be explored and alternative identities proposed. Previous studies of Catholicism in the period have focused on notions of the exotic, corrupt religious Other which is inscribed as the implaca
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-310) and index
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Subject Catholic Church -- In literature.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Sensationalism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Literature
Sensationalism in literature
Literatur
Katholizismus Motiv
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846312762
1846312760
9781781386293
1781386293