Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel

ISBN-13: 9783030313463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 133 str.

Teresa Huffman Traver

Recenzje

"Traver has written a book which sketches some exciting new perspectives on Victorian religious fiction while showing, more explicitly (and in a brief epilogue), that it has a more than antiquarian interest. This book should be read by anyone who works on Victorian fiction, and most definitely by those interested in its religious dimension." (J. Russell Perkin, Victorian Studies, Vol. 64 (2), 2022)

Spis treści

One: Introduction: “A Home for the Lonely” 4

I. “One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church” 5

II. Home, Church, Nation and Beyond 13

III. Nineteenth-Century Religious Controversy 19

IV. Catholicity and Literature 22

Two: Shipwrecks, House-fires, and Mourning Rings 30

I. Uniting the Divided House 31

II. Into the Bear-garden 41

III. “Communion with a Heretic” 48

Three: Losing a Family, Gaining a Church 57

I. Converts and Broken Homes: From Oxford to Rome and the Connelly Case 58

II. Critiquing the Domestic Ideal 75

III. Beyond Home and Homeland 82

Four: Conversion, Duality, and Vocation: The Perpetual Curate 93

I. History, Conversion, and Betrayal 96

II. The Convert as Dualist: The Case of Gerald Wentworth 100

III. Duplicity and Disguise: Jesuits in Carlingford? 105

IV. Lucy, Frank, and “The Great Work” 111

Five: “Home by Michaelmas”: Yonge’s Tractarian Domestic 123

I. The Home, the Church, and the World 124

II. Constructing the Tractarian Domestic 128

III. “I believe in the Communion of Saints” 135

Six: Conclusion: “Desire of Nations” 146

O autorze

Teresa Huffman Traver is Associate Professor of English at The California State University, Chico, USA. She specializes in Victorian literature and children’s literature. Her work has appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, Victorian Review, and Women’s Writing.

Blurb

Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of “the communion of saints” and the “holy Catholic Church” provided Victorian novelists—both Roman Catholic and Protestant—with a means of exploring religious forms of cosmopolitanism. Building on research exploring the divisions between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in Victorian literature and culture, Teresa Huffman Traver considers the extent to which anti-Catholicism, domesticity, and national identity were linked. Huffman Traver connects this research with cosmopolitan theory, and analyzes how the conception of Catholicity could be used to reach beyond national identity towards a transnational community. Investigating the idea of a “rooted” cosmopolitanism, grounded in the local and limited in scope, this Pivot book offers a new angle on how religion, domesticity, and national identity were constructed in nineteenth-century British culture.