The Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

ISBN-13: 9780367887001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str.

Monika Mazurek

Opis

The Unknown Relatives analyzes a large body of Victorian literary texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Catholics, written from the non-Catholic perspective. The readings of these texts are inspired by psychoanalytic criticism, primarily by the work of Freud and Kristeva and includes the readings of a number of Victorian autho

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. After the Act of Emancipation: the position of Catholics in England in the Victorian era

3. Abjection and Catholicism: the dynamic of revulsion and attraction in Protestant depictions of

Catholicism

4. Perverts to Rome: Catholicism as a threat to gender roles and the Protestant family

5. The uncanny: the familiarity of Roman Catholicism and the foreignness of Anglo-Catholicism

6. Liberty and progress or authority and respect: the conflict of values in the historical novel

7. Conclusion

O autorze

Monika Mazurek is a Professor of English Literature at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland.