Download or read book Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture written by Juan Vine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic forms were used to represent Catholicism and sexual difference as alien to British culture, from the origins of the Gothic novel to Stoker's Dracula and Hardy's Jude the Obscure. The Victorian Gothic developed as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it.