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Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature /
Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian cultural and social conventions through readings of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism. Maureen Moran argues that Catholic sensationalism provided a rich imaginative resource for Vic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Liverpool English texts and studies ;
49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian cultural and social conventions through readings of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism. Maureen Moran argues that Catholic sensationalism provided a rich imaginative resource for Victorians of all denominations (and none) through which a range of cultural contradictions and conflicts could be explored and alternative identities proposed. Previous studies of Catholicism in the period have focused on notions of the exotic, corrupt religious Other which is inscribed as the implaca. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-310) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846312762 1846312760 9781781386293 1781386293 |