Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy

During the last decade of the 19th century, a number of English writers converted to Roman Catholicism: the “Decadent” poets John Gray, Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson joined the Church in 1890 and 1891, while Oscar Wilde flirted with the Catholic faith during his college years at Oxford, and recei...

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Main Author: Claire Masurel-Murray
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2013-04-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/528