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Author Perkin, J. Russell (James Russell)

Title Theology and the Victorian novel / J. Russell Perkin.

Publication Info. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2009]
©2009
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Description 1 online resource (x, 273 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index.
Contents Introduction : the Victorian book of life -- The implied theology of Vanity fair -- Charlotte Bronte·'s Shirley as a novel of religious controversy -- Gleams from a brighter world : Charlotte Mary Yonge's tractarian poetics -- From St. Paul to Pecksniff : Trollope's Bertrams and Arnold's god -- Feeling's a sort o'knowledge : George Eliot's religion of humanity -- Thomas Hardy's apocryphal gospels -- Literature and dogma : Mary August Ward's Robert Elsmere and Walter Pater's Marius the epicurean.
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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Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Christianity and literature.
England.
History.
Christianity in literature.
Christianity in literature.
Theology in literature.
Theology in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic resource.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Perkin, J. Russell (James Russell). Theology and the Victorian novel. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009 9780773536067 (DLC) 2010549182 (OCoLC)373343344
ISBN 9780773576995 (electronic book)
0773576991 (electronic book)
1282867423
9781282867420
9780773536067 (print)
077353606X

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