Evangelical gothic : the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula / / Christopher Herbert |
Autore | Herbert Christopher <1941-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) |
Disciplina | 823/.809382 |
Collana | Victorian literature and culture series |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
ISBN | 0-8139-4341-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793884203321 |
Herbert Christopher <1941-> | ||
Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evangelical gothic : the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula / / Christopher Herbert |
Autore | Herbert Christopher <1941-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) |
Disciplina | 823/.809382 |
Collana | Victorian literature and culture series |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
ISBN | 0-8139-4341-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817060303321 |
Herbert Christopher <1941-> | ||
Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian Sacrifice : Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / / Ilana Blumberg |
Autore | Blumberg Ilana M. <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.809382 |
Collana | Literature, religion, and postsecular studies |
Soggetto topico |
Economics in literature
Ethics in literature Altruism in literature Self-sacrifice in literature Religion and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8142-7111-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524883603321 |
Blumberg Ilana M. <1970-> | ||
Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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