03267nam 2200697Ia 450 991079144090332120231206213954.01-282-86742-397866128674220-7735-7699-110.1515/9780773576995(CKB)2560000000051755(OCoLC)759157076(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424150(SSID)ssj0000443244(PQKBManifestationID)11302681(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443244(PQKBWorkID)10455673(PQKB)10677572(CEL)433009(CaBNvSL)slc00225600(Au-PeEL)EBL3332145(CaPaEBR)ebr10559096(CaONFJC)MIL286742(OCoLC)923235055(DE-B1597)655906(DE-B1597)9780773576995(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/67fwmq(MiAaPQ)EBC3332145(MiAaPQ)EBC3271188(EXLCZ)99256000000005175520100111d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTheology and the Victorian novel[electronic resource] /J. Russell PerkinMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20091 online resource (284 p.) 0-7735-3606-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-263) and index.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.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.Christianity and literatureEnglandHistory19th centuryChristianity in literatureEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismTheology in literatureChristianity and literatureHistoryChristianity in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.Theology in literature.823/.8093823Perkin J. Russell(James Russell)1570519MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791440903321Theology and the Victorian novel3844230UNINA