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03741aam a2200577 i 4500 001 9085D2C0580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170731t20172017vaua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2017024793 020 $a 081394077X 020 $a 9780813940779 035 $a (OCoLC)988169380 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR595.R4 $b P39 2017 082 00 $a 821/.809382 $2 23 100 1 $a Paxton, Amanda, $e author. 245 10 $a Willful submission : $b sado-erotics and heavenly marriage in Victorian religious poetry / $c Amanda Paxton. 246 30 $a Sado-erotics and heavenly marriage in Victorian religious poetry 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2017. 300 $a viii, 228 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Victorian literature and culture series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Bridal desires -- Anti-Catholicism and nuptial anxieties -- Tractarian poetry and radical masochism -- Catholicism and the metaphysics of longing -- Conclusion. 650 0 $a English poetry $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Christian poetry, English $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Religion and poetry. 650 0 $a Eroticism in literature. 650 0 $a Sexual dominance and submission in literature. 650 0 $a Patriarchy $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 650 0 $a Women's rights $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Christian poetry, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859405 650 7 $a English poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912278 650 7 $a Eroticism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896123 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Patriarchy $x Christianity. $x Christianity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01055092 650 7 $a Religion and poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093841 650 7 $a Sexual dominance and submission in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904658 650 7 $a Women's rights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178818 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Victorian literature and culture series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116051734.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9085D2C0580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search