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Evangelical gothic : the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula
- Title
- Evangelical gothic : the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula / Christopher Herbert.
- Author
- Herbert, Christopher, 1941-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- x, 278 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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. "--
- Series Statement
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Uniform Title
- Victorian literature and culture series.
- Alternative Title
- English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula
- Subjects
- Religion and literature
- English fiction
- Religious literature, English
- Evangelicalism in literature
- History
- Religion in literature
- Religious literature, English > History and criticism
- 1800-1899
- Religion and literature > England > History > 19th century
- England
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Religious critique of virtue: Wesley, Whitefield, Wilberforce -- Impossibility of the evangelical novel -- "Ghastly apparitions": specters of piety in Scott and Hogg -- Curse of the holy law and glimpses of angels in Bleak house -- Ideology of faith in the early career of George Eliot -- Afterword: fanatical imagination in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1562
- ISBN
- 9780813943404
- 081394340X
- LCCN
- 2019015595
- OCLC
- 1091587753
- Author
- Herbert, Christopher, 1941- author.
- Title
- Evangelical gothic : the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula / Christopher Herbert.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Victorian literature and culture seriesVictorian literature and culture series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Herbert, Christopher, 1941- author. Evangelical gothic Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 9780813943411 (DLC) 2019021464
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1562