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    Locating the Backstage of Victorian Religion: Spaces of Irish Catholicism


    Roddy, Sarah (2023) Locating the Backstage of Victorian Religion: Spaces of Irish Catholicism. Journal of Victorian Culture, 28 (4). pp. 554-559. ISSN 1355-5502

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    Abstract

    This introduction to the ‘Spaces of Irish Catholicism’ Roundtable argues that applying the concept of ‘space’ to nineteenth-century Irish Catholicism has the potential to offer significant new insights to our understandings of Irish Catholicism and the lives of ordinary Irish Catholics, but also to Victorian Studies and religious history more generally. In particular, it contends that the nature of Irish Catholicism in the later nineteenth century was such that examining its many different spaces offers a valuable means of enacting Peter Andersson’s plea to uncover the ‘backstage’ of the Victorian period. In describing the eight diverse papers that comprise the Roundtable, the introduction argues that a previously identified dichotomy between the ‘poetics of space’ and the ‘politics of space’ within the religious realm may need to be rethought.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Victorian Studies; backstage; space; devotional revolution; religion; Catholicism;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History
    Item ID: 19747
    Identification Number: 10.1093/jvcult/vcac082
    Depositing User: Dr Sarah Roddy
    Date Deposited: 28 Apr 2025 11:51
    Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Victorian Culture
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19747
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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