Gains and losses : novels of faith and doubt in Victorian England / by Robert Lee Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Robert Lee.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Religious fiction, English--History and criticism.

Religious fiction, English.

Belief and doubt in literature.

Belief and doubt.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 537 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1977.

Summary:

Discusses the works of John Henry Newman, Charlotte Yonge, Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Mrs. Oliphant, Emma Worboise, Hesba Stretton, Elizabeth Charles, George MacDonald, William Hale White, Edmund Gosse, Mrs. Lynn Linton, J.A. Froude, Geraldine Jewsbury, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, W.H. Mallock, Samuel Butler, Charles Maurice Davies, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Frederick William Farrar, Charles Kingsley, Frederick Dension Maurice, Walter Pater, Harriett Mozley, Francis Edward Paget, F.W. Robinson, Felicia Mary Frances Skene, Anthony Trollope, and others.

Contents:

Ch.4. Broad church. The "Cambridge network". Broad churchmanship, Alexandrian style : Hypatia. "Broad church" or "hard church"? : perversion. Portrait of a seer : F.D. Maurice in George MacDonald's David Elginbrod. Two popularizers : Robinson and Davies. A summing up

pt. 3. Ch.5. Dissent. Outsiders and renegades : Mrs. Oliphant, George MacDonald, William Hale White, Edmund Gosse, and others

pt. 4. "No church." Varieties of doubt. Ch.6. "Only infinite jumble and mess and dislocation." Preliminary. William Hale White's Freethinkers. Mrs. Lynn Linton and Christ as a communist

Ch.7. "Spiritual agonizing bellyaches." J.A. Froude and Geraldine Jewsbury. Earnestness in the second generation : William Delafield Arnold. Voices from South Africa and Australia

Ch.8. The impact of science. The telescope atop the tracts. An OUTCAST, alone and desolate.

Laxity combatted. To atheism and back. Science, religion, and Samuel Butler

Ch.9. Earnestness in the third generation : Mrs. Humphry Ward. Robert Elsmere : "The typical process of the present day." "The grand intellectual novel" : Helbeck of Bannisdale

Ch.10. "Souls bereaved." The novels of W.H. Mallock. "A systematic stock-taking of the English mind." Sex, melancholia, and religion. The social question and religion. Love and religion. "Fantastic tricks." A summing up.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-516) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Wolff, Robert Lee. Gains and losses.

ISBN:

0824016173

9780824016173

OCLC:

2542022