Evangelical Gothic : The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula /

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"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...

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Main Author: Herbert, Christopher, 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religious literature, English.
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature.
Evangelicalism in literature.
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Religion et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Religion dans la litterature.
Litterature religieuse anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Évangelisme dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Religion and literature > England > History > 19th century.
Religious literature, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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