Patrick R. O'Malley

Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

O'Malley explores Victorian Gothic as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780521863988
• ISBN-10: 0521863988
• Artikelnr.: 22705979

Autorenporträt

Patrick R. O'Malley is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: skeletons in the cloister
1. Goths and Romans: the literature of Gothic from Radcliffe to Ruskin
2. 'The Church's closet': 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 of Pater and Wilde
6. Conclusions: Oxford's ghosts and the end of the Gothic
Works cited.