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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458065603321

Autore

Perkin J. Russell (James Russell)

Titolo

Theology and the Victorian novel [[electronic resource] /] / J. Russell Perkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-86742-3

9786612867422

0-7735-7699-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

823/.8093823

Soggetti

Christianity and literature - England - History - 19th century

Christianity in literature

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Theology in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the Victorian book of life -- The implied theology of Vanity fair -- Charlotte BronteĀ·'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'knowlege : 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.