| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 Field's domestic piety |
| Summary |
"Why did the Victorians hate and fear Roman Catholics so much? This question has long preoccupied literary and cultural scholars alike. Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home by Maria LaMonaca begins with the assumption that anti-Catholicism reveals far more about the Victorians than simple theological disagreements or religious prejudice. An analysis of anti-Catholicism exposes a host of anxieties, contradictions, and controversies dividing Great Britain, the world's most powerful nation by the mid-nineteenth century." "LaMonaca situates texts by Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Michael Field, and others against a rich background of discourses about the growing visibility of Anglo and Roman Catholicism in Victorian England. Masked Atheism will contribute a fresh perspective to an ongoing conversation about the significance of Catholicism in Victorian literature and culture."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Catholic Church -- In literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Catholic Church. fast (OCoLC)fst00531720 |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Protestant authors -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Catholic authors -- History and criticism
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Anti-Catholicism in literature.
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Catholic Church and atheism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Families -- Religious life -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Secularism in literature.
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Women and religion -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Anti-Catholicism in literature.
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Catholic Church and atheism.
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English literature.
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English literature -- Catholic authors.
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English literature -- Protestant authors.
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English literature -- Women authors.
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Families -- Religious life.
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Literature.
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Secularism in literature.
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Women and religion.
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Antikatholizismus
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Frauenliteratur
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Englische Literatur -- Katholizismus -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Katholizismus -- Englische Literatur -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Katholizismus.
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Protestantismus.
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Säkularismus.
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Literatur.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Englisch.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007039397 |
| ISBN |
9780814271933 |
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0814271936 |
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