Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home /

"Why did the Victorians hate and fear Roman Catholics so much? This question has long preoccupied literary and cultural scholars alike. Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home by Maria LaMonaca begins with the assumption that anti-Catholicism reveals far more about the Victor...

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Main Author: LaMonaca, Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Extravagant creature worship: Protestant and Catholic "sermons" on marriage
  • "Sick souls": love, guilt, and the Catholic confessional in Victorian women's fiction
  • Narratives of female celibacy
  • "Hoc est corpus meum": Aurora Leigh, Goblin Market, and transubstantiation
  • The "Queen of heaven" or a very confused nun? Our Lady of La Salette, George Eliot, and Victorian anxieties about God
  • "Seven years a tiny paradise a making": Michael Field's domestic piety.