Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature write by Maureen Moran. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exotic, corrupt, and dangerous, Roman Catholicism functioned in the popular Victorian imagination as a highly sensationalized and implacably anti-English enemy. Maureen Moran’s lively study considers a wide range of key authors—including Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, as well as a number of non-canonical writers—to give a detailed account of the cultural tensions between Catholics and Protestants. Moran shows that rather than representing a traditional religious schism, the demonizing of Catholics resulted from secular fears over crime, sex, and violence.
Victorian Sensation Fiction
Victorian Sensation Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Sensation Fiction write by Jessica Cox. This book was released on 2019-04-25. Victorian Sensation Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or potentially dangerous qualities of the genre to the prolific critical attention of the present day, this Reader's Guide identifies the dominant approaches to sensation fiction and charts the critical trends of various scholarly evaluations and interpretations. With coverage spanning empire, class, sexuality and adaptation, this is the ideal companion for students of Victorian Literature looking for an introduction to the key debates surrounding sensation fiction.
Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts write by Josephine M. Guy. This book was released on 2017-10-23. Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures - such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses - of decadence and decay on the one hand, and of experiment and renewal, on the other; as well as with unprecedented intercultural exchange, especially between Britain and France. The 22 newly-commissioned essays collected here re-examine some of the key concepts taken to define the fin de siècle, while also introducing hitherto overlooked cultural phenomena into the frame, such as the importance of humanitarianism. The impact of recent research in material culture is explored, particularly how the history of the book and the history of performance culture is changing our understanding of this period. A wide range of cultural activities is discussed?from participation in avant-garde theatre to interior decoration and from the writing of poetry to political and religious activism. Together, the essays provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siècle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism.
Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion
Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion write by Kirstie Blair. This book was released on 2012-05-24. Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. She argues that poetry made significant contributions to these debates, not least through its formal structures. By assessing the discourses of church architecture and liturgy in the first half of the book, Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion demonstrates that Victorian poets both reflected on and affected ecclesiastical practices. The second half of the book focuses on particular poets and poems, including Browning's Christmas-Eve and Tennyson's In Memoriam, to show how High Anglican debates over formal worship were dealt with by Dissenting, Broad Church and Roman Catholic poets and other writers. This book features major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - from different Christian denominations, but also argues that their work was influenced by a host of minor and less studied writers, particularly the Tractarian or Oxford Movement poets whose writings are studied in detail here. Form and Faith presents a new take on Victorian poetry by showing how important now-forgotten religious controversies were to the content and form of some of the best-known poems of the period. In methodology and content, it also relates strongly to current critical interest in poetic form and formalism, while recovering a historical context in which 'form' carried a particular weight of significance.
The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman
The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman write by Frederick D. Aquino. This book was released on 2018-10-18. The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Henry Newman (1801-1890) has always inspired devotion. Newman has made disciples as leader of the Catholic revival in the Church of England, an inspiration to fellow converts to Roman Catholicism, a nationally admired preacher and prose-writer, and an internationally recognized saint of the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, he has also provoked criticism. The church authorities, both Anglican and Catholic, were often troubled by his words and deeds, and scholars have disputed his arguments and his honesty. Written by a range of international experts, The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman shows how Newman remains important to the fields of education, history, literature, philosophy, and theology. Divided into four parts, part one grounds Newman's works in the places, cultures, and networks of relationships in which he lived. Part two looks at the thinkers who shaped his own thought, while the third part engages critically and appreciatively with themes in his writings. Part four examines how those themes have shaped conversations in the churches and the academy. This Handbook will serve as an important resource to critical and appreciative exploration of the person, writings, controversies, and legacy of Newman.
