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