Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives
This new volume of essays examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality. Why did so many literary Modernists embrace Catholicism? What is their relationship between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century, from Britain to America and France, Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what is modern about homosexuality. The result is a...
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This new volume of essays examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality. Why did so many literary Modernists embrace Catholicism? What is their relationship between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century, from Britain to America and France, Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what is modern about homosexuality. The result is a radical revision of the sacred - in life and art, the body and devotion.
List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgements xNotes on Contributors xiIntroduction: the Catholic Modernist Crisis, Queer Modern Catholicisms Frederick S. Roden 1Queer Converts: Peculiar Pleasures and Subtle Antinomianism Thomas Lawrence Long 19The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and Sexuality in Gothic Fiction George E. Haggerty 33Michael Field, John Gray, and Marc-Andre Raffalovich: Reinventing Romantic Friendship in Modernity Frederick S. Roden 57Confessing Stephen: the Nostalgic Erotics of Catholicism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Patrick R. O'Malley 69"Uncovenanted Joys": Catholicism, Sapphism, and Cambridge Ritualist Theory in Hope Mirrlees' Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists Ruth Vanita 85The Feminized Priest and the Female Outsider: Catholicism and Sexuality in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop Susan E. Hill 97The Well of Loneliness and the Catholic Rhetoric of Sexual Dissidence Richard Dellamora 114"The Woman That God Forgot": Queerness, Camp, Lies, and Catholicism in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood Patricia Juliana Smith 129"A Twitch Upon the Thread": Revisiting Brideshead Revisited Francesca Coppa 149The Altar of the Soul: Sexuality and Spirituality in the Works of Julien Green Thomas J. D. Armbrecht 163Notes 184Index 206
