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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791440903321
• Autore: Perkin J. Russell (James Russell)
• 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
• 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 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'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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Beginning with a wide-ranging introduction that explains why a theological reading of Victorian fiction is both rewarding and timely, Perkin also addresses religion's return to prominence in the twenty-first century, confounding earlier predictions of its imminent demise. Chapters on William Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy are followed by a concluding discussion of Mary Ward and Walter Pater that relates Pater's Marius the Epicurean to postmodern theology and shows how it remains a religious classic for our own time.