Author: William Carus WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Correspondence with a Jesuit on the Subject of Mariolatry
Author: William Carus WilsonVictorian Reformation
Author: Dominic JanesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190452218
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In early Victorian England there was intense interest in understanding the early Church as an inspiration for contemporary sanctity. This was manifested in a surge in archaeological inquiry and also in the construction of new churches using medieval models. Some Anglicans began to use a much more complicated form of ritual involving vestments, candles, and incense. This "Anglo-Catholic" movement was vehemently opposed by evangelicals and dissenters, who saw this as the vanguard of full-blown "popery." The disputed buildings, objects, and art works were regarded by one side as idolatrous and by the other as sacred and beautiful expressions of devotion. Dominic Janes seeks to understand the fierce passions that were unleashed by the contended practices and artifacts - passions that found expression in litigation, in rowdy demonstrations, and even in physical violence. During this period, Janes observes, the wider culture was preoccupied with the idea of pollution caused by improper sexuality. The Anglo-Catholics had formulated a spiritual ethic that linked goodness and beauty. Their opponents saw this visual worship as dangerously sensual. In effect, this sacred material culture was seen as a sexual fetish. The origins of this understanding, Janes shows, lay in radical circles, often in the context of the production of anti-Catholic pornography which titillated with the contemplation of images of licentious priests, nuns, and monks.
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Publishers' Circular
Author: Masked Atheism
Author: Maria LaMonacaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Why did the Victorians hate and fear Roman Catholics so much? This question has long preoccupied literary and cultural scholars alike. Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home by Maria LaMonaca begins with the assumption that anti-Catholicism reveals far more about the Victorians than simple theological disagreements or religious prejudice. An analysis of anti-Catholicism exposes a host of anxieties, contradictions, and controversies dividing Great Britain, the world's most powerful nation by the mid-nineteenth century. Noting that Catholicism was frequently caricatured by the Victorians as "masked atheism"--that is, heathenism and paganism masquerading as legitimate Christianity--LaMonaca's study suggests that much anti-Catholic rhetoric in Victorian England was fueled by fears of encroaching secularism and anxieties about the disappearance of God in the modern world. For both male and female writers, Catholicism became a synonym for larger, "ungodly" forces threatening traditional ways of life: industrialization, rising standards of living, and religious skepticism. LaMonaca situates texts by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Michael Field, and others against a rich background of discourses about the growing visibility of Anglo and Roman Catholicism in Victorian England. In so doing, she demonstrates the influence of both pro- and anti-Catholic sentiment on constructs of Victorian domesticity, and explores how writers appropriated elements of Catholicism to voice anxieties about the growing secularization of the domestic sphere: a bold challenge to sentimental notions of the home as a "sacred" space. Masked Atheism will contribute a fresh perspective to an ongoing conversation about the significance of Catholicism in Victorian literature and culture.
Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates
Author: The Jesuit Party in American Politics Exposed and Expounded in Letters to the Ablegate
Author: Arthur Cleveland CoxePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The Provincial Letters of Pascal
Author: Blaise PascalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jansenists
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description