Catholicism, sexual deviance, and Victorian Gothic culture / Patrick R. O'Malley.

Catholicism, sexual deviance, and Victorian Gothic culture / Patrick R. O'Malley.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

English

English.

1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : illustrations

PR878.T3 O43 2006eb

(OCoLC)252530648

It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid and supernatural plots, were used to argue that both Catholicism and sexual difference were fundamentally alien and threatening to British Protestant culture. Ultimately, however, the Gothic also provided an imaginative space in which unconventional writers from John Henry Newman to Oscar Wilde could articulate an alternative vision of British culture. Patrick O'Malley charts these developments from the origins of the Gothic novel in the mid-eighteenth century, through the mid-nineteenth-century sensation novel, toward the end of the Victorian Gothic in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. O'Malley foregrounds the continuing importance of Victorian Gothic as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-274) and index.

Print version record.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 51.

Print version: O'Malley, Patrick R. Catholicism, sexual deviance, and Victorian Gothic culture. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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