| Description |
1 online resource (x, 278 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Victorian literature and culture series
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Victorian literature and culture series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The religious critique of virtue: Wesley, Whitefield, Wilberforce -- The impossibility of the evangelical novel -- "Ghastly apparitions": specters of piety in Scott and Hogg -- The curse of the holy law and glimpses of angels in Bleak house -- The ideology of faith in the early career of George Eliot -- Afterword: fanatical imagination in Bram Stoker's Dracula. |
| Summary |
"Examining both the theology of John Wesley, George Whitefield, and William Wilberforce and novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sir Walter Scott, and Bram Stoker as well as a host of 'Evangelical novels' of the period, Herbert analyzes the Evangelical and anti-Evangelical forces at play in Victorian literature and culture, challenging accepted notions of the impact of the Evangelical movement on gothic Victorian literature."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Evangelicalism in literature.
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Evangelicalism in literature. |
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Religious literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Religious literature, English. |
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Religion in literature.
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Religion in literature. |
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Religion and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Title |
English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Herbert, Christopher, 1941- Evangelical gothic. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 9780813943404 (DLC) 2019015595 |
| ISBN |
0813943418 (electronic book) |
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9780813943411 (electronic book) |
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9780813943404 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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