Research Catalog

Title

Victorian doubt : literary and cultural discourses / Lance St. John Butler.

Author

Butler, Lance St. John.

Publication

New York : Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1990.

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Details

Description

ix, 222 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1837-1901
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Belief and doubt in literature
• Theology, Doctrinal > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Christian literature, English > History and criticism
• Faith > History of doctrines > 19th century
• Faith in literature
• Christian literature, English
• English literature
• Faith > History of doctrines
• Theology, Doctrinal
• Englisch
• Glaubenszweifel
• Literatur
• Religion
• Religiöse Sprache
• Zweifel
• Religion Motiv
• Roman
• Taalgebruik
• Victoriaanse tijd
• Christendom
• Religion dans la littérature anglaise
• Religion et culture > Grande-Bretagne
• Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle
• Religion et littérature > Grande-Bretagne
• Great Britain
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Endemic doubt in Victorian literature -- Dickens, Carlyle and hell on earth -- The discourse of religion among Victorian doubters -- Disbelieving religiously: the 1870s and the need for compromise -- 'A Christianity in harmony with our whole nature' -- Truth's holy sepulchre: George Eliot and the case of Daniel Deronda -- A possible Messiah: Henry Drummond's analogy of religion -- Failed violence in Victorian fiction -- 'Unless the world is to perish': Hardy and Christian discourse.

ISBN

• 0710810598
• 9780710810595
• 0389209384
• 9780389209386

LCCN

92221327

OCLC

• ocm26811135
• 26811135
• SCSB-14503426

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library