Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England
Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England

Author: C. Oulton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-12-13

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0230504647

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This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England. While much recent criticism has tended to overlook or dismiss their religious pronouncements, this book foregrounds the religious aspect of their writing and relocates their most important work in the context of contemporary debate. The response of both writers is seen to be complex and fraught with tension.

Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England
Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

Author: Cynthia Scheinberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-30

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1139434225

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Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion

Author: Joshua King

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04-02

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780814255292

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Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Victorian Faith in Crisis
Victorian Faith in Crisis

Author: Richard J. Helmstadter

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780804716024

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A Stanford University Press classic.

Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England
Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England

Author: C. Oulton

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2002-12-13

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9780333993378

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This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England. While much recent criticism has tended to overlook or dismiss their religious pronouncements, this book foregrounds the religious aspect of their writing and relocates their most important work in the context of contemporary debate. The response of both writers is seen to be complex and fraught with tension.

The Victorian Pulpit
The Victorian Pulpit

Author: Robert H. Ellison

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781575910147

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The Victorian Pulpit is the first book to employ the methods of orality-literacy scholarship in the study of the nineteenth-century British sermon. The first chapters present three ways in which Victorian preaching was a conflation of oral and written practice. The second part is an analysis of the rhetoric of three prominent ministers. The book concludes by suggesting other ways of bringing orality-literacy studies and Victorian scholarship together.

Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England
Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England

Author: J. B. Poole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-18

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 100001035X

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This fifth volume of annual reviews of developments in the implementation of arms control and environmental agreements and in peacekeeping activities covers recent developments. It discusses nuclear proliferation, nuclear testing, a fissile materials cut-off and the counter-proliferation concept.

Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England
Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England

Author: Denis G. Paz

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780804719841

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Anti-Catholic sentiment was a major social, cultural, and political force in Victorian England, capable of arousing remarkable popular passion. Hitherto, however, anti-Catholic feeling has been treated largely from the perspective of parliamentary politics or with reference to the propaganda of various London-based anti-Catholic religious organizations. This book sets out to Victorian anti-Catholicism in a much fuller and more inclusive context, accounting for its persistence over time, disguishing it from anti-Irish sentiment, and explaining its social, economic, political, and religious bases locally as well as nationally. The author is principally concerned with determining what led ordinary people to violent acts against Roman Catholic targets, violent acts against Roman Catholic petitions, joining anti-Catholic organizations, and reading anti-Catholic literature. All too often, English history, and even British history, turns out to be the history of what was happening in the West End. One of the special distinctions of this book is that it shows the interplay between national issues and their local conditions. The book covers the period ca.

Victorian Reformation
Victorian Reformation

Author: Dominic Janes

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-04-08

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0199702837

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In early Victorian England there was intense interest in understanding the early Church as an inspiration for contemporary sanctity. This was manifested in a surge in archaeological inquiry and also in the construction of new churches using medieval models. Some Anglicans began to use a much more complicated form of ritual involving vestments, candles, and incense. This "Anglo-Catholic" movement was vehemently opposed by evangelicals and dissenters, who saw this as the vanguard of full-blown "popery." The disputed buildings, objects, and art works were regarded by one side as idolatrous and by the other as sacred and beautiful expressions of devotion. Dominic Janes seeks to understand the fierce passions that were unleashed by the contended practices and artifacts - passions that found expression in litigation, in rowdy demonstrations, and even in physical violence. During this period, Janes observes, the wider culture was preoccupied with the idea of pollution caused by improper sexuality. The Anglo-Catholics had formulated a spiritual ethic that linked goodness and beauty. Their opponents saw this visual worship as dangerously sensual. In effect, this sacred material culture was seen as a sexual fetish. The origins of this understanding, Janes shows, lay in radical circles, often in the context of the production of anti-Catholic pornography which titillated with the contemplation of images of licentious priests, nuns, and monks.