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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press
2019.
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| Serie: | Victorian literature and culture series.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvq4bzdg |
Sommario:
- 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.