Evangelical gothic : the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula /

"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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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Herbert, Christopher, 1941- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press 2019.
سلاسل:Victorian literature and culture series.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvq4bzdg
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.