Catholic figures, queer narratives [electronic resource] / edited by Lowell Gallagher, Frederick S. Roden and Patricia Juliana Smith.
Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality in a wide range of literary spaces. Why did so many homosexual Modernists embrace Catholicism? What is the role of Gothic anti-Catholicism in shaping modern definitions of both homosexual and Catholic...
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the Catholic modernist crisis, queer modern Catholicisms / Frederick S. Roden
- The horrors of Catholicism: religion and sexuality in gothic fiction / George E. Haggerty
- Michael Field, John Gray, and Marc-Andre Raffalovich: reinventing romantic friendship in modernity / Frederick S. Roden
- Confessing Stephen: the nostalgic erotics of Catholicism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Patrick R. O'Malley
- "Uncovenanted joys": Catholicism, Sapphism, and Cambridge ritualist theory in Hope Mirrlees' Madeleine: One of Love's jansenists / Ruth Vanita
- The feminized priest and the female outsider: Catholicism and sexuality in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop / Susan E. Hill
- The Well of Loneliness and the Catholic rhetoric of sexual dissedence / Richard Dellamora
- "The woman that God forgot": queerness, camp, lies, and Catholicism in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood / Patricia Juliana Smith
- "A twitch upon the thread": revisiting Brideshead Revisited / Francesca Coppa
- The alter of the soul: sexuality and spirituality in the works of Julien Green / Thomas J.D. Armbrecht.