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Strange gods : love and idolatry in the Victorian novel / Timothy L. Carens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carens, Timothy L., 1965- author.
- Series:
- Among the Victorians and modernists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Love in literature.
- Idolatry in literature.
- Protestantism in literature.
- Protestantism and literature--History--19th century.
- Protestantism and literature.
- Love--Religious aspects--Protestant churches.
- Love.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Timothy L. Carens is Professor of English at the College of Charleston where he teaches classes on nineteenth-century literature and culture. He is author of Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel and his essays have appeared in Dickens Studies Annual, Studies in English Literature, College English, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "Idolatry of the Heart"
- Breaking the Idol of the Marriage Plot in Yeast and Villette
- Idolatrous Reading in The Doctor's Wife
- Following the Sun God in Middlemarch
- Worshipping Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray
- New Goddesses : Carving Images in The Well-Beloved.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Carens, Timothy L., 1965- Strange gods.
- ISBN:
- 9781003058236
- 100305823X
- 9781000484885
- 1000484882
- 9781000484809
- 1000484807
- Publisher Number:
- 40030873125
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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