POINTED ARCHES, PAPIST DANGER. THE ECHOES OF THE DEBATE ON THE CHURCH ARCHITECTURE IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL (Ostre luki i zagrozenie papistowskie. Literackie reminiscencje dyskusji o architekturze kosciolow anglikanskich doby wiktorianskiej)

• Authors: Mazurek Monika
• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

In English culture Gothic architecture enjoyed ambiguous reputation: on one hand, it was obviously connected with pre-Reformation times and therefore suspect. This reputation was strengthened by the Gothic novel which associated Gothic buildings with oppression and tyranny allegedly characteristic for Catholic countries. On the other hand, as a supposedly 'native' English style, in contrast to imported classicism, it was hailed as the true product of free English spirit. This dichotomy proved to be particularly interesting in the 19th century, the age of the Gothic Revival. As more and more Anglican churches were restored or built in the style propagated by A. W. Pugin and John Ruskin, the English public, in particular its Low Church faction, was ambivalent or even hostile towards the growing influence of the style associated with Roman Catholicism, the enemy of Protestant England. The article discusses the selected passages from Victorian novelists, both well-known (Bronte, Trollope, Borrow) and minor ones, which describe Gothic architecture and analyzes them in the context of this debate.

Keywords

EN

CATHOLICISM; GOTHIC; GOTHIC REVIVAL; PROTESTANTISM; VICTORIAN NOVEL

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Centrum Dokumentacji Współczesnej Sztuki Sakralnej przy Wydziale Sztuki Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
• Journal: Sacrum et Decorum. Materiały i studia z historii sztuki sakralnej
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 115-126
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mazurek Monika

• Monika Mazurek, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie, Instytut Neofilologii, ul. Karmelicka 41, 31-128 Krakow, Poland

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