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- Title
Losing a Family, Gaining a Church: Catholic Conversion and English Domesticity.
- Authors
Traver, Teresa Huffman
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the mid-nineteenth century novels "Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert" by John Henry Newman and "From Oxford to Rome" by Elizabeth Furlong Shipton Harris is presented. It focuses on the relationship between conversion to Catholicism from Anglicanism, English national identity, and domestic ideology. The author comments on Anglican anti-Catholicism and examines Tractarian Anglicans. Other topics include marriage, religious celibacy, and communal life.
- Subjects
LOSS &; Gain: The Story of a Convert (Book); FROM Oxford to Rome (Book); NEWMAN, John Henry, 1801-1890; HARRIS, Elizabeth Furlong Shipton; CONVERSION to Christianity; CATHOLIC Church in literature; ENGLISH national character in literature; HISTORY
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 1, p127
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2011.0006