The Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as the Other in the by Monika Mazurek
By Monika Mazurek
The Unknown Relatives analyses a wide physique of Victorian literary texts facing the subject of Catholicism and Catholics, written from the non-Catholic point of view. The readings of those texts are encouraged through psychoanalytic feedback, basically by way of the paintings of Freud and Kristeva. Kristeva’s paintings on abjection, the paradoxical repulsion combined with allure, offers the framework for the 1st a part of the publication, which argues that Victorian depictions of Catholicism express an identical mix of fascination and appeal. the second one a part of the ebook is developed mostly round Freud’s notion of the uncanny, displaying how Catholicism used to be forged within the function of the archaic faith, profoundly unusual and but whilst someway widely used. The e-book contains the readings of a few Victorian authors, either canonical (Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, Charles Dickens) and lesser-known ones (George Borrow, John Shorthouse, Mrs Humphry Ward). The booklet may be of curiosity to students of cultural, literary and spiritual experiences, in addition to to readers drawn to the issues of faith in literature and spiritual prejudice.
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