LaMonaca, Maria.

Masked Atheism Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / Maria LaMonaca. - 1 online resource (xiii, 231 p.) : ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.

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 Fields's domestic piety.

Open Access

9780814271933 0814271936




Catholic Church--In literature.


Women and religion--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Secularism in literature.
Families--Religious life--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Catholic Church and atheism--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Anti-Catholicism in literature.
English literature--Catholic authors--History and criticism.
English literature--Protestant authors--History and criticism.
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century


Electronic books.

PR468.C3 / L36 2008

820.9/38282