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 autho

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367887001
• ISBN-10: 0367887002
• Artikelnr.: 58482945

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