Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / / Maria LaMonaca

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524672603321
• Autore: LaMonaca Maria
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 231 p.) : : ill.
• Disciplina: 820.9/38282
• Soggetti: Women and religion - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Secularism in literature; Families - Religious life - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Catholic Church and atheism - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Anti-Catholicism in literature; English literature - Catholic authors - History and criticism; English literature - Protestant authors - History and criticism; English literature - Women authors - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Extravagant creature worship: Protestant and Catholic "sermons" on marriage -- "Sick souls": love, guilt, and the Catholic confessional in Victorian women's fiction -- Narratives of female celibacy -- "Hoc est corpus meum": Aurora Leigh, Goblin Market, and transubstantiation -- The "Queen of heaven" or a very confused nun? Our Lady of La Salette, George Eliot, and Victorian anxieties about God -- "Seven years a tiny paradise a making": Michael Fields's domestic piety.