Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature

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Liverpool University Press, 2007 M01 1 - 324 páginas
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. The book demonstrates how new understandings of cultural tensions of the period are gained through the association of Roman Catholicism with secular fears of crime, sex and violence, rather than with theological 'excesses' and doctrinal 'superstitions'.
 

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Introduction
1
Sensational Invasions The Jesuit the State and the Family
28
Nuns and Priests Sensations of the Cloister
77
Persecution and Martyrdom Th e Law and the Body
131
Feeling the Great Change Conversion and the Authority of Affect
177
Art Catholicism and the New Catholic Baroque
231
Epilogue
284
Index
311
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Maureen Moran is Professor of English Literature at Brunel University and a member of the Advisory Committee for the national English Subject Centre, and of the Executive Committee of the English Association.

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