Willful submission : sado-erotics and heavenly marriage in Victorian religious poetry / Amanda Paxton.
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Paxton, Amanda (författare)
- ISBN 9780813940779
- Publicerad: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017
- Copyright: ©2017
- Engelska viii, 228 pages
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Serie: Victorian literature and culture series
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- Introduction -- Bridal desires -- Anti-Catholicism and nuptial anxieties -- Tractarian poetry and radical masochism -- Catholicism and the metaphysics of longing -- Conclusion.
- "Through a series of case studies examining three major branches of Victorian Christianity, this volume makes groundbreaking connections between desire and suffering in nineteenth-century English literature and culture. In the age of "progress," alongside the Darwinian revolution, the women's suffrage movement, and the march of industrialization ran a seemingly paradoxical fascination with a dark, erotically suggestive side of religious devotion: the figuration of the Christian God as a heavenly bridegroom who doles out punishment to his bride, the individual soul. Unsurprisingly, the model of a punitive deity-husband and a dutifully submissive wife proved to be a convenient rhetorical tool by which to defend against burgeoning nineteenth-century campaigns for women's rights and challenges to Church authority. More remarkably, however, in the hands of certain writers it provided a means of resisting patriarchal institutions, interrogating ideological distinctions between science and religion, and positing new, non-binary gender identities"--
Ämnesord
- Engelsk religiös poesi (sao)
- Engelsk poesi (sao)
- Engelsk erotisk poesi (sao)
- Erotik i litteraturen (sao)
- Litteratur och samhälle (sao)
- Sado-masochism i litteraturen (sao)
- Religion and poetry. (LCSH)
- Eroticism in literature. (LCSH)
- Sexual dominance and submission in literature. (LCSH)
- English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Christian poetry, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (LCSH)
- Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Christian poetry, English. (fast)
- English poetry. (fast)
- Eroticism in literature. (fast)
- Literature and society. (fast)
- Religion and poetry. (fast)
- Sexual dominance and submission in literature. (fast)
- Women's rights. (fast)
- Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (fast)
- Kvinnors rättigheter -- historia (sao)
- Patriarkat -- religiösa aspekter (sao)
- Religious poetry, English (LCSH)
- Literature and society (LCSH)
- Eroticism in literature (LCSH)
- Erotic Poetry, English (LCSH)
- Sadomasochism in literature (LCSH)
- Storbritannien (sao)
- Great Britain. (fast)
- 1800-talet (sao)
- 1800-1899 (fast)
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- Analys och tolkning (saogf)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc. (fast)
- History. (fast)
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- PR595.R4 (LCC)
- 821.809382 (DDC)
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