Catholic sensationalism and Victorian literature / Maureen Moran.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-310) and index.

Sensational invasions : The jesuit, the state and the family Charles Kingsley Westward ho! and Wilkie Collins's The black rob--Nuns and Priests: Sensations of the cloister Charlotte Bronte's Villette and the monologues of Robert Browning--Persecution and martyrdom : The law and the body Grace Aguilar's The vale of cedars, or The martyr and George Eliot's Romola--Feeling the great change : Conversion and the authority of affect Benjamin Disraeli's Lothair, J.H. Shorthouse's John inglesant and Mary Ward's Helbeck of bannisdale--Art Catholicism and the New Catholic Baroque the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Francis Thompson.

Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature offers a highly original examination of Victorian cultural and social conventions through readings of popular literary representations of Roman Catholicism. Maureen Moran argues that Catholic sensationalism provided a rich imaginative resource for Victorians of all denominations (and none) through which a range of cultural contradictions and conflicts could be explored and alternative identities proposed. Previous studies of Catholicism in the period have focused on notions of the exotic, corrupt religious Other which is inscribed as the implaca.

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