Newman's Callista: An Apologia for Ritual

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dc.contributor.authorFanucchi, Sonia
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-22T15:33:37Z
dc.date.available2021-01-22T15:33:37Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractNewman’s Callista (1855) has been difficult to place: scholars have tended simultaneously to dismiss it for what they perceive as its Gothic melodrama and to criticize its realist lack of sensationalism. I propose that the text has been misread, in part because of misleading assumptions about the nineteenth century historical novel. Rather than simply a religious polemic, I suggest that Callista can be read as an apologia for ritual, which is presented as an exploration of the spiritual reach of language itself and its power ritually to transform the historical moment. This involves the deliberate rewriting and dismantling of the ‘medieval’, Gothic caricatures so frequently associated with the anti-Catholic narratives of the time.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSonia Fanucchi, 'Newman's Callista: An Apologia for Ritual', Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 29 (2019): 1-24en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549388
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSouthern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studiesen_ZA
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGIONen_ZA
dc.subjectJohn Henry Newmanen_ZA
dc.subjectrealismen_ZA
dc.subjectanti-Catholicismen_ZA
dc.titleNewman's Callista: An Apologia for Ritualen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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