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UNINA9910817060303321 |
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Autore |
Herbert Christopher <1941-> |
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Titolo |
Evangelical gothic : the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula / / Christopher Herbert |
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Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019 |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 278 pages) |
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Collana |
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Victorian literature and culture series |
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Soggetti |
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Religion and literature - England - History - 19th century |
Religion in literature |
Religious literature, English - History and criticism |
Evangelicalism in literature |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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"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. "-- |
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