Evangelical gothic : the English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula / Christopher Herbert.
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TextSeries: Victorian literature and culture seriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019Copyright date: �2019Description: 1 online resource (x, 278 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780813943411
- 0813943418
- English novel and the religious war on virtue from Wesley to Dracula
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Evangelicalism in literature
- Religious literature, English -- History and criticism
- Religion in literature
- Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
- English fiction
- Evangelicalism in literature
- Religion and literature
- Religion in literature
- Religious literature, English
- England
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- 1800-1899
- 823/.809382 23
- PR830.E85 H47 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 at play in Victorian literature and culture, challenging accepted notions of the impact of the Evangelical movement on gothic Victorian literature."-- Provided by publisher.
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