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WILLFUL SUBMISSION
SADO-EROTICS AND HEAVENLY MARRIAGE IN VICTORIAN RELIGIOUS POETRY |
| By: |
Amanda Paxton, Herbert F. Tucker |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
081394077X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813940779 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 January, 2018 |
| Series: |
Victorian Literature and Culture Series |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Through case studies of Victorian religious poetry, Amanda Paxton reveals that while the punitive model proved a rhetorical tool with which to deflate burgeoning nineteenth-century campaigns for women's rights and challenges to Church authority, in the hands of several writers it also provided a means of resisting patriarchal institutions and interrogating distinctions between science and religion. |
| Synopsis: |
Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their union; a clergyman exhorts nuns to study the example of medieval women who suffered on the rack in order to become ""brides"" of Christ. Alongside the march of nineteenth-century progress 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.Through innovative case studies of Victorian religious poetry, Amanda Paxton reveals that while the punitive model proved a convenient rhetorical tool with which to deflate burgeoning nineteenth-century campaigns for women's rights and challenges to Church authority, in the hands of several writers it also provided a means of resisting patriarchal institutions and interrogating distinctions between science and religion. Willful Submission is the first full-length volume to examine the interplay of sex, suffering, and religion as a touchstone in Victorian culture and verse. |
| US Grade: |
College Graduate Student and over |
| Illustrations: |
5 black & white photographs |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |