Amanda Paxton: 1 book
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Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
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"...
