Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives

LOWELL GALLAGHER is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Medusa's Gaze: Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance as well as numerous articles on early modern English Catholicism, Shakespeare and postmodern ethics. FREDERICK S. RODEN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture and the editor of Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies. PATRICIA JULIANA SMITH is Assistant Professor of English at Hofs

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Catholic Modernist Crisis, Queer Modern Catholicisms; F.S.Roden Queer Converts: Peculiar Pleasures and Subtle Antinomianism; T.L. Long The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and Sexuality in Gothic Fiction; G.E.Haggerty Michael Field, John Gray, and Marc-Andre Raffalovich: Re-Inventing Romantic Friendship in Modernity; F.S.Roden Confessing Stephen: The Nostalgic Erotics of Catholicism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ; P.R.O'Malley 'Uncovenanted Joys': Catholicism, Sapphism, and Cambridge Ritualist Theory in Hope Mirrlees's Madelaine: One of Loves Jansenists ; R.Vanita The Feminist Priest and the Female Outsider: Catholicism and Sexuality in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop ; S.Hill The Well of Loneliness and the Catholic Rhetoric of Sexual Dissidence; R.Dellamora 'The Women that God Forgot': Queerness, Camp, Lies and Catholicism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ; P.J.Smith 'A Twitch Upon theThread': Revisiting Brideshead Revisited '; F.Coppa The Altar of the Soul: Sexuality and Spirituality in the Works of Julien Green; T.J.D.Armbrecht Notes Index