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Euzenas, Lynn L.

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Illicit propriety: Protestants, sexualized convent narratives, and pornography in nineteenth-century America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Illicit propriety: Protestants, sexualized convent narratives, and pornography in nineteenth-century America./
Author:	Euzenas, Lynn L.
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3443.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234276
ISBN:	9780542879999

Illicit propriety: Protestants, sexualized convent narratives, and pornography in nineteenth-century America.
Euzenas, Lynn L.

Illicit propriety: Protestants, sexualized convent narratives, and pornography in nineteenth-century America. - 228 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3443.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2006.

As a genre of anti-Catholic invective, the sexualized convent narrative came into prominence out of the hodgepodge of reform and sensationalist literature in antebellum America. Sexualized convent narratives such as Maria Monk's The Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Monastery of Montreal (1836) share much of the salaciousness of other nineteenth-century American literary forms but claim a certain distinction: while lurid and sexually suggestive, the majority of these texts do not explicitly present genital or sexual behavior. Nevertheless, I argue that the exploitation of the tradition of politicized slander of religious institutions via the introduction of elements of sexual immorality and pornography allow these narratives to be called American religious pornography.

ISBN: 9780542879999Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Illicit propriety: Protestants, sexualized convent narratives, and pornography in nineteenth-century America.
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520 $a American religious pornography may be defined as a fictional sexualized narrative, constructed by a specifically identified religious group for the express purpose of the stigmatization and ostracization of a differing, specifically identified religious group. Sexualized convent narratives draw significantly upon two literary traditions: American captivity literature and Gothic literature. Textual "borrowings" from each (woman as captive, defilement, macabre imagery, degradation of bodies, and terror) allow for the embellishment of details with elements drawn from Enlightenment era pornography to create a pornographic overlay to the text.
520 $a Sexualized convent narratives cross over into the pornographic when the incitement of terror in the text is pushed to the level of a repulsive reaction by the inclusion of pornographic elements. This reaction of repulsion challenges the boundaries transgressed by a pleasurable reaction to Gothic terror, and calls for the restoration and reconstitution of appropriate boundaries through the expulsion of the repulsive element, the Catholic as other. I call this process the psycho-emotive response of othering.
520 $a A close textual analysis and comparison of Maria Monk's The Awful Disclosures and the Marquis de Sade's novel Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised illustrates commonalities which include near direct textual quotation, parallel textual borrowing, shared architectural reference, descriptions of rape, torture/murder, sacrilege, and a delight in anti-clericalism.
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