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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (231 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814271933
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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.
Review: "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
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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.

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"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

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