TY - BOOK ID - 13161643 TI - Catholicism, sexual deviance, and Victorian gothic culture. PY - 2006 SN - 0521863988 9780521863988 9780511484896 051124634X 9780511246340 9780511247019 051124701X 9786610703685 661070368X 051124486X 0511318839 9780511318832 1280703687 9781280703683 0511484895 0511245637 9780511245633 1107169194 PB - Cambridge Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - English fiction KW - Gothic revival (Literature) KW - Paraphilias in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Catholic Church KW - In literature. KW - Paraphilias in literature KW - Sexual deviation in literature KW - Sexual perversion in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Literary movements KW - Revival movements (Art) KW - Romanticism KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English KW - English gothic fiction (Literary genre) KW - Church of Rome KW - Roman Catholic Church KW - Katholische Kirche KW - Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva KW - Römisch-Katholische Kirche KW - Römische Kirche KW - Ecclesia Catholica KW - Eglise catholique KW - Eglise catholique-romaine KW - Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ KW - Chiesa cattolica KW - Iglesia Católica KW - Kościół Katolicki KW - Katolicki Kościół KW - Kościół Rzymskokatolicki KW - Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai KW - Katholikē Ekklēsia KW - Gereja Katolik KW - Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit KW - Kanisa Katoliki KW - כנסיה הקתולית KW - כנסייה הקתולית KW - 가톨릭교 KW - 천주교 KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:13161643 AB - 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. ER -