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Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives Edited by Lowell Gallagher, Frederick S. Roden and Patricia Juliana Smith Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives Also by Lowell Gallagher Medusa’s Gaze: Casuistry and Conscience in the Renaissance Frederick S. Roden Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture Ed., Palgrave Advances: Oscar Wilde Studies Patricia Juliana Smith Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women’s Fictions Ed., En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera Ed., The Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations Ed., The Queer Sixties Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives Edited by Lowell Gallagher University of California, Los Angeles Frederick S. Roden University of Connecticut and Patricia Juliana Smith Hofstra University © Editorial matter & selection © Lowell Gallagher,Frederick S.Roden & Patricia Juliana Smith 2006 Introduction © Frederick S.Roden 2006 All remaining chapters © respective authors 2006 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-0-230-00831-1 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28393-4 ISBN 978-0-230-28777-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230287778 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Catholic figures,queer narratives / edited by Lowell Gallagher,Frederick S. Roden,and Patricia Juliana Smith. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Homosexuality in literature. 2. English fiction–History and criticism. 3. American fiction–History and criticism. 4. Homosexuality–Religious aspects–Catholic Church. 5. Homophobia–Religious aspects–Catholicism. 6. Catholic gays. 7. Homosexuality and literature. 8. Gay authors–Religious life. I. Gallagher,Lowell,1953– II. Roden,Frederick S.,1970– III. Smith, Patricia Juliana. PR830.H67C37 2006 823.009′353–dc22 2006045372 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 For our families, spiritual and otherwise...and in memory of Simone Leborgne, Dennis J. P. Lamb, Fr. Paul, and the mother of PJS This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements x Notes on Contributors xi Introduction: the Catholic Modernist Crisis, Queer Modern Catholicisms 1 Frederick S. Roden 1 Queer Converts: Peculiar Pleasures and Subtle Antinomianism 19 Thomas Lawrence Long 2 The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and Sexuality in Gothic Fiction 33 George E. Haggerty 3 Michael Field, John Gray, and Marc-Andre Raffalovich: Reinventing Romantic Friendship in Modernity 57 Frederick S. Roden 4 Confessing Stephen: the Nostalgic Erotics of Catholicism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 69 Patrick R. O’Malley 5 “Uncovenanted Joys”: Catholicism, Sapphism, and Cambridge Ritualist Theory in Hope Mirrlees’ Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists 85 Ruth Vanita 6 The Feminized Priest and the Female Outsider: Catholicism and Sexuality in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop 97 Susan E. Hill 7 The Well of Loneliness and the Catholic Rhetoric of Sexual Dissidence 114 Richard Dellamora vii viii Contents 8 “The Woman That God Forgot”: Queerness, Camp, Lies, and Catholicism in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood 129 Patricia Juliana Smith 9 “A Twitch Upon the Thread”: Revisiting Brideshead Revisited 149 Francesca Coppa 10 The Altar of the Soul: Sexuality and Spirituality in the Works of Julien Green 163 Thomas J. D. Armbrecht Notes 184 Index 206 List of Illustrations Leaf from a missal: frontispiece for the Canon of the Mass, The Crucifixion, French, thirteenth century, c.1270–90. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Bequest of Thomas W. Lamont, by exchange, 1981 (1981.322). Photograph, all rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.) 120 ix
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