Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel

__Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel__ argues that the Creedal doctrines of “the communion of saints” and the “holy Catholic Church” provided Victorian novelists—both Roman Catholic and Protestant—with a means of exploring religious forms of cosmopolitanism. Building on research exploring the divisions between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in Victorian literature and culture, Teresa Huffman Traver considers the extent to which anti-Catholicism, domesticity, and national identity were linked. Huffman Traver connects this research with cosmopolitan theory, and analyzes how the conception of Catholicity could be used to reach beyond national identity towards a transnational community. Investigating the idea of a “rooted” cosmopolitanism, grounded in the local and limited in scope, this Pivot book offers a new angle on how religion, domesticity, and national identity were constructed in nineteenth-century British culture. "Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of 'the communion of saints' and the 'holy Catholic Church' provided Victorian novelists-both Roman Catholic and Protestant-with a means of exploring religious forms of cosmopolitanism. Building on research exploring the divisions between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in Victorian literature and culture, Teresa Huffman Traver considers the extent to which anti-Catholicism, domesticity, and national identity were linked. Huffman Traver connects this research with cosmopolitan theory, and analyzes how the conception of Catholicity could be used to reach beyond national identity towards a transnational community. Investigating the idea of a 'rooted' cosmopolitanism, grounded in the local and limited in scope, this Pivot book offers a new angle on how religion, domesticity, and national identity were constructed in nineteenth-century British culture."-- Back cover Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: “A Home for the Lonely” (Teresa Huffman Traver)....Pages 1-22 Shipwrecks, House-Fires, and Mourning Rings (Teresa Huffman Traver)....Pages 23-46 Losing a Family, Gaining a Church (Teresa Huffman Traver)....Pages 47-78 Conversion, Duality, and Vocation: The Perpetual Curate (Teresa Huffman Traver)....Pages 79-104 “Home by Michaelmas”: Yonge’s Tractarian Domestic (Teresa Huffman Traver)....Pages 105-122 Conclusion: “Desire of Nations” (Teresa Huffman Traver)....Pages 123-128 Back Matter ....Pages 129-133