Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian LiteratureLiverpool University Press, 01.01.2007 - 324 Seiten 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 |
| 311 | |
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