Catholicism, sexual deviance, and Victorian Gothic culture /
[Book]
Patrick R. O'Malley
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006
x, 279 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
51
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-274) and index
Introduction : skeletons in the cloister -- 1. Goths and Romans : the literature of gothic from Radcliffe to Rushkin -- 2. "The church's closer" -- Victorian Catholicism and the crisis of interpretation -- 3. Domestic gothic : unveiling Lady Audley's secret -- 4. The blood of the saints : vampirism from Polidori to Stoker -- 5. "Monstrous and terrible delight" : the aesthetic gothic to Pater and Wilde -- 6. Conclusions : Oxford's ghosts and the end of the gothic
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Catholic Church-- In literature
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism