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Theology and the Victorian Novel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773576995
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theology and the Victorian NovelDDC classification:
  • 823.8093823
LOC classification:
  • PR878.R5 P47 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: The Victorian Book of Life -- ONE: The Implied Theology of Vanity Fair -- TWO: Charlotte Brontë's Shirley as a Novel of Religious Controversy -- THREE: "Gleams from a Brighter World": Charlotte Mary Yonge's Tractarian Poetics -- FOUR: "From St Paul to Pecksniff ": Trollope's Bertrams and Arnold's God -- FIVE: "Feeling's a Sort o' Knowledge": George Eliot's Religion of Humanity -- SIX: Thomas Hardy's Apocryphal Gospels -- SEVEN: Literature and Dogma: Mary Augusta Ward's Robert Elsmere and Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Religious issues played a prominent role in Victorian England and had a profound influence on the culture of that period. In Theology and the Victorian Novel, J. Russell Perkin shows that even the apparently secular world of the realist novel is shaped by the theological debates of its time.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: The Victorian Book of Life -- ONE: The Implied Theology of Vanity Fair -- TWO: Charlotte Brontë's Shirley as a Novel of Religious Controversy -- THREE: "Gleams from a Brighter World": Charlotte Mary Yonge's Tractarian Poetics -- FOUR: "From St Paul to Pecksniff ": Trollope's Bertrams and Arnold's God -- FIVE: "Feeling's a Sort o' Knowledge": George Eliot's Religion of Humanity -- SIX: Thomas Hardy's Apocryphal Gospels -- SEVEN: Literature and Dogma: Mary Augusta Ward's Robert Elsmere and Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Religious issues played a prominent role in Victorian England and had a profound influence on the culture of that period. In Theology and the Victorian Novel, J. Russell Perkin shows that even the apparently secular world of the realist novel is shaped by the theological debates of its time.

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