Monika Mazurek

The Unknown Relatives

The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

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 authors, both canonical like Charlotte Bronté, William Thackeray, and Charles Dickens and lesser-known ones such as George Borrow, John Shorthouse, and Mrs Humphry Ward.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781138710245
• ISBN-10: 1138710245
• Artikelnr.: 48454347

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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