Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives

1. Introduction: the Catholic Modernist Crisis, Queer Modern Catholicisms
Frederick S. Roden

2. Queer Converts: Peculiar Pleasures and Subtle Antinomianism
Thomas Lawrence Long

3. The Horrors of Catholicism: Religion and Sexuality in Gothic Fiction
George E. Haggerty

4. Michael Field, John Gray, and Marc-Andre Raffalovich: Reinventing Romantic Friendship in Modernity
Frederick S. Roden

5. Confessing Stephen: the Nostalgic Erotics of Catholicism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Patrick R. O’Malley

6. “Uncovenanted Joys”: Catholicism, Sapphism, and Cambridge Ritualist Theory in Hope Mirrlees’ Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists
Ruth Vanita

7. The Feminized Priest and the Female Outsider: Catholicism and Sexuality in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop
Susan E. Hill

8. The Well of Loneliness and the Catholic Rhetoric of Sexual Dissidence
Richard Dellamora

9. “The Woman That God Forgot”: Queerness, Camp, Lies, and Catholicism in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood
Patricia Juliana Smith

10. “A Twitch Upon the Thread”: Revisiting Brideshead Revisited
Francesca Coppa

11. The Altar of the Soul: Sexuality and Spirituality in the Works of Julien Green
Thomas J. D. Armbrecht

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Catholicism, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature