Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature.
Title:
Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature.
Author:
Moran, Maureen.
ISBN:
9781781386293
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (332 pages)
Series:
Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 49 ; v.v. 49
Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 49
Contents:
Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Sensational Invasions: The Jesuit, the State and the Family -- 2: Nuns and Priests: Sensations of the Cloister -- 3: Persecution and Martyrdom: Th e Law and the Body -- 4: Feeling the Great Change: Conversion and the Authority of Affect -- 5: Art Catholicism and the New Catholic Baroque -- Epilogue -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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