Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: the Catholic Modernist Crisis, Queer Modern Catholicisms....Pages 1-18
Queer Converts: Peculiar Pleasures and Subtle Antinomianism....Pages 19-32
The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and Sexuality in Gothic Fiction....Pages 33-56
Michael Field, John Gray, and Marc-Andre Raffalovich: Reinventing Romantic Friendship in Modernity....Pages 57-68
Confessing Stephen: the Nostalgic Erotics of Catholicism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man....Pages 69-84
“Uncovenanted Joys”: Catholicism, Sapphism, and Cambridge Ritualist Theory in Hope Mirrlees’ Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists....Pages 85-96
The Feminized Priest and the Female Outsider: Catholicism and Sexuality in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop....Pages 97-113
The Well of Loneliness and the Catholic Rhetoric of Sexual Dissidence....Pages 114-128
“The Woman That God Forgot”: Queerness, Camp, Lies, and Catholicism in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood....Pages 129-148
“A Twitch Upon the Thread”: Revisiting Brideshead Revisited....Pages 149-162
The Altar of the Soul: Sexuality and Spirituality in the Works of Julien Green....Pages 163-183
Back Matter....Pages 184-211