Willful Submission: Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry

by Amanda Paxton

Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their union; a clergyman exhorts nuns to study the example of medieval women who suffered on the rack in order to become "brides" of Christ. Alongside the march of nineteenth-century progress ran a seemingly paradoxical fascination with a dark, erotically suggestive side of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081394077X
• ISBN13: 9780813940779
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"