Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature [[electronic resource] /] / Maureen Moran

• Autore: Moran Maureen
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.938282
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Sensationalism in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-310) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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: The 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature
• ISBN: 1-78138-629-3; 1-84631-276-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454141703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 49