Record Details     « New Search       Brief Record Full Record MARC Record     Bibliographic Data Control Number muse60364 Control Number Identifier MdBmJHUP Date and Time of Latest Transaction 20180103104318.0 General Information 170731s2018 vau o 00 0 eng d International Standard Book Number 9780813940786   0813940788   9780813940779 (cloth : alk. paper) System Control Number (OCoLC)1017612809 Cataloging Source MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP Library of Congress Call Number PR595.R4 P39 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification Number 821/.809382 23 Main Entry - Personal Name Paxton, Amanda, author. Title Statement Willful Submission [electronic resource] : Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry / Amanda Paxton Physical Description 1 online resource (pages cm) Series Statement Victorian literature and culture series Formatted Contents Note Introduction -- Bridal desires -- Anti-Catholicism and nuptial anxieties -- Tractarian poetry and radical masochism -- Catholicism and the metaphysics of longing -- Conclusion Summary, Etc. "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" -- Provided by publisher Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century   Women's rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century   Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity   Sexual dominance and submission in literature   Eroticism in literature   Religion and poetry   Christian poetry, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism   English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism Index Term - Genre/Form Electronic books. -- local Added Entry - Corporate Name Project Muse           Physical Location           Digital Copy Not Available          Add to Book Cart  |   Download MARC