Overview
Provides background on the religious controversies and conflicts of the late 1840s to early 1860s
Draws on Victorian domestic fiction
Applies cosmopolitan theory to understand the interplay between Catholicism, Protestantism, and English national identity
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Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of “the communion of saints” and the “holy Catholic Church” provided Victorian novelists—both Roman Catholic and Protestant—with a means of exploring religious forms of cosmopolitanism. Building on research exploring the divisions between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in Victorian literature and culture, Teresa Huffman Traver considers the extent to which anti-Catholicism, domesticity, and national identity were linked. Huffman Traver connects this research with cosmopolitan theory, and analyzes how the conception of Catholicity could be used to reach beyond national identity towards a transnational community. Investigating the idea of a “rooted” cosmopolitanism, grounded in the local and limited in scope, this Pivot book offers a new angle on how religion, domesticity, and national identity were constructed in nineteenth-century British culture.
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About the author
Teresa Huffman Traver is Associate Professor of English at The California State University, Chico, USA. She specializes in Victorian literature and children’s literature. Her work has appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, Victorian Review, and Women’s Writing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel
Authors: Teresa Huffman Traver
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31347-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31346-3Published: 02 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31347-0Published: 20 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 133
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Catholicism, Comparative Religion