Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture

Informationen zum Autor Patrick R. O'Malley is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. Klappentext O'Malley explores Victorian Gothic as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it. Zusammenfassung Gothic forms were used to represent Catholicism and sexual difference as alien to British culture! from the origins of the Gothic novel to Stoker's Dracula and Hardy's Jude the Obscure. The Victorian Gothic developed as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: skeletons in the cloister; 1. Goths and Romans: the literature of Gothic from Radcliffe to Ruskin; 2. 'The Church's closet': Victorian Catholicism and the crisis of interpretation; 3. Domestic Gothic: unveiling Lady Audley's Secret; 4. The blood of the saints: vampirism from Polidori to Stoker; 5. 'Monstrous and terrible delight': the aesthetic Gothic of Pater and Wilde; 6. Conclusions: Oxford's ghosts and the end of the Gothic; Works cited.

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• Authors: &apos, Patrick R. malley, O&apos, Patrick R. O'Malley, Patrick R. O''malley, Patrick R. (Georgetown University O''malley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2006
• EAN: 9780521863988
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86398-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies