1st Edition
The Unknown Relatives The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel
By Monika Mazurek
Copyright 2017
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Unknown Relatives analyses 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. Kristeva’s work on abjection, the paradoxical repulsion mixed with attraction, provides the framework for the... Read more
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
Biography
Monika Mazurek is a Professor of English Literature at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland.
