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.
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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