02711oam 22005414a 450 991079388420332120231207231320.00-8139-4341-8(CKB)4100000009374984(MiAaPQ)EBC5906208(OCoLC)1099539623(MdBmJHUP)muse76165(EXLCZ)99410000000937498420190429d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEvangelical gothic the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula /Christopher HerbertCharlottesville :University of Virginia Press,2019.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2019©2019.1 online resource (x, 278 pages)Victorian literature and culture series0-8139-4340-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Victorian literature and culture series.Religion and literatureEnglandHistory19th centuryReligion in literatureReligious literature, EnglishHistory and criticismEvangelicalism in literatureEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismReligion and literatureHistoryReligion in literature.Religious literature, EnglishHistory and criticism.Evangelicalism in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.823/.809382Herbert Christopher1941-1505404MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910793884203321Evangelical gothic3734957UNINA