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Catholicism, sexual deviance, and Victorian Gothic culture /
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 fundame...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
51. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : skeletons in the cloister
- Goths and Romans : the literature of Gothic from Radcliffe to Rushkin
- "The church's closet" : Victorian Catholicism and the crisis of interpretation
- Domestic Gothic : unveiling Lady Audley's secret
- The blood of the saints : vampirism from Polidori to Stoker
- "Monstrous and terrible delight" : the aesthetic Gothic of Pater and Wilde
- Conclusions : Oxford's ghosts and the end of the Gothic.