Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives This new volume of essays examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality. Why did so many literary Modernists embrace Catholicism? What is their relationship between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century, from Britain to America and France, "Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives" interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what is modern about homosexuality. The result is a radical revision of the sacred - in life and art, the body and devotion.
Details of Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives Title: Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives
Author: Lowell Gallagher, Frederick S. Roden, Patricia Juliana Smith
ISBN: 0230008313
ISBN-13: 9780230008311
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Number of Pages: 211
Language: English