It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid and supernatural plots, were used to argue that both Catholicism and sexual difference were fundame...

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1. Verfasser:	O'Malley, Patrick R.
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 51.
Schlagworte:	Catholic Church > In literature. Catholic Church 1800-1899 Paraphilias in literature. Gothic revival (Literature) English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Littérature frénétique. Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction Literature Paraphilias in literature Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Zusammenfassung:	It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid and supernatural plots, were used to argue that both Catholicism and sexual difference were fundamentally alien and threatening to British Protestant culture. Ultimately, however, the Gothic also provided an imaginative space in which unconventional writers from John Henry Newman to Oscar Wilde could articulate an alternative vision of British culture. Patrick O'Malley charts these developments from the origins of the Gothic novel in the mid-eighteenth century, through the mid-nineteenth-century sensation novel, toward the end of the Victorian Gothic in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. O'Malley foregrounds the continuing importance of Victorian Gothic as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-274) and index.
ISBN:	051124634X 9780511246340 9780511247019 051124701X 9786610703685 661070368X 0511318839 9780511318832 1280703687 9781280703683 0511484895 9780511484896 0511245637 9780511245633