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"Perplext in Faith" : essays on Victorian beliefs and doubts / edited by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and Julie Melnyk
- Published
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 340 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa, 1967- and Melnyk, Julie
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; INTRODUCTION; Part I; "ALL THE STRANGE FACTS"; ARMAGEDDON AT SEBASTOPOL; REFORMING SOCIETY; Part II; FAITH AND THE FEMININE; JEWISH ANGEL IN THE HOUSE; "PUBLIC ACTS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION"; VARIATIONS ON THE GRAND TOUR; FOR ISIS AND ENGLAND; Part III; WRESTLING WITH THEIR FATHER'S FAITH; DICKENS'S THE LIFE OF OUR LORDAND THE PROBLEM OF JESUS; MODE OF BELIEF OR EVIDENCE OF DOUBT?GEORGE ELIOT AND THE "RELIGIONOF FAVOURABLE CHANCE"; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.
- Summary
- Annotation In the last twenty years, there has been a growing recognition of the centrality of religious beliefs to an understanding of Victorian literature and society. This interdisciplinary collection makes a significant contribution to post-secularist scholarship on Victorian culture, reflecting the great diversity of religious beliefs and doubts in Victorian Britain, with essays on Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, and spiritualist topics. Writing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives for an interdisciplinary audience, the essayists investigate religious belief using diverse historical and literary sources, including journalism, hymns, paintings, travel-writings, scientific papers, novels, and poetry. Essays in the volume examine topics including: The relation between science and religion in the career of evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace (Thomas Prasch); The continuing significance of the Bible in geopolitical discourse (Eric Reisenauer); The role of children and children's hymns in the missionary and temperance movements (Alisa Clapp-Itnyre); The role of women in Christian and Jewish traditions (Julie Melnyk and Lindsay Dearinger); The revival of Catholicism and Catholic culture and practices (Katherine Haldane Grenier and Michelle Meinhart); The occult religious society Golden Dawn (Sharon Cogdill); Faith in the writings of the Bronte sisters (Christine Colon); Charles Dickens (Jessica Hughes); and George Eliot (Robert Koepp).
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781443875899 (electronic bk.)
1443875899 (electronic bk.)
1443868140
9781443868143
9781336096813
1336096810 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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