LEADER 02940 am 2200529 n 450 001 9910498503703321 005 20230427180446.0 010 $a979-1-03-657418-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000012033867 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-obp-20458 035 $a(PPN)257806644 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012033867 100 $a20210916j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 200 02$aA Victorian Curate$eA Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt$fDavid Yeandle 210 $aCambridge$cOpen Book Publishers$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (xii-249 p.) 311 $a1-80064-152-4 330 $aThe Rev. Dr John Hunt (1827-1907) was not a typical clergyman in the Victorian Church of England. He was Scottish, of lowly birth, and lacking both social connections and private means. He was also a witty and fluent intellectual, whose publications stood alongside the most eminent of his peers during a period when theology was being redefined in the light of Darwin?s Origin of Species and other radical scientific advances. Hunt attracted notoriety and conflict as well as admiration and respect: he was the subject of articles in Punch and in the wider press concerning his clandestine dissection of a foetus in the crypt of a City church, while his Essay on Pantheism was proscribed by the Roman Catholic Church. He had many skirmishes with incumbents, both evangelical and catholic, and was dismissed from several of his curacies. This book analyses his career in London and St Ives (Cambs.) through the lens of his autobiographical narrative, Clergymen Made Scarce (1867). David Yeandle has examined a little-known copy of the text that includes manuscript annotations by Eliza Hunt, the wife of the author, which offer unique insight into the many anonymous and pseudonymous references in the text. A Victorian Curate: A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt is an absorbing personal account of the corruption and turmoil in the Church of England at this time. It will appeal to anyone interested in this history, the relationship between science and religion in the nineteenth century, or the role of the curate in Victorian England. 517 $aVictorian Curate 606 $aHistory 606 $aScottish 606 $apublications 606 $aHistory and Biography 606 $aclergyman 606 $aintellectual 606 $aLondon 606 $aPunch 606 $aSt Ives 606 $atheology 615 4$aHistory 615 4$aScottish 615 4$apublications 615 4$aHistory and Biography 615 4$aclergyman 615 4$aintellectual 615 4$aLondon 615 4$aPunch 615 4$aSt Ives 615 4$atheology 700 $aYeandle$b David$01350822 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910498503703321 996 $aA Victorian Curate$93089828 997 $aUNINA