Decadence and Catholicism Hanson Ellis
Decadence and Catholicism Hanson Ellis Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. In…
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Decadence and Catholicism Hanson Ellis
Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. In their art, they enacted the romance of faith as a protest against the dreariness of modern life. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition.
More than any other literary movement, the decadents explored the powerful historical relationship between homoeroticism and Roman Catholicism. Ellis Hanson teases out two strands--eroticism and aestheticism--that rendered the decadent interest in Catholicism extraordinary. Why, throughout history, have so many homosexuals been attracted to Catholic institutions that vociferously condemn homosexuality?
This perplexing question is pursued in this elegant and innovative book.Late-nineteenth-century aesthetes found in the
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