"Perplext in faith" : essays on victorian beliefs and doubts / edited by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and Julie Melnyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa, editor.

Melnyk, Julie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays--19th century.

English essays.

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

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Brontë sisters (Christine Colón), Charles Dickens (Jessica Hughes) and George Eliot (Robert Koepp).

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 16, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-7589-9

OCLC:

904425166