Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Patrick R. O'Malley

页数:296

出版时间:2006-9-21

价格:GBP 77.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521863988

图书标签:维多利亚时代哥特gothVictorianEnglish200619thCentuary

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.