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Author:

Paxton, Amanda, author.

Title:

Willful submission : sado-erotics and heavenly marriage in Victorian religious poetry / Amanda Paxton.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

viii, 228 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
Christian poetry, English--19th century--History and criticism.
Religion and poetry.
Eroticism in literature.
Sexual dominance and submission in literature.
Patriarchy--Christianity.--Christianity.
Women's rights--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Christian poetry, English.
English poetry.
Eroticism in literature.
Literature and society.
Patriarchy--Christianity.--Christianity.
Religion and poetry.
Sexual dominance and submission in literature.
Women's rights.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Bridal desires -- Anti-Catholicism and nuptial anxieties -- Tractarian poetry and radical masochism -- Catholicism and the metaphysics of longing -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"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.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

ISBN:

081394077X
9780813940779

OCLC:

(OCoLC)988169380

LCCN:

2017024793

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)