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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Charlottesville ; London
University of Virginia Press
2019
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| Ausgabe: | First published |
| Schriftenreihe: | Victorian literature and culture series
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Religious critique of virtue: Wesley, Whitefield, Wilberforce
- Impossibility of the evangelical novel
- "Ghastly apparitions": specters of piety in Scott and Hogg
- Curse of the holy law and glimpses of angels in Bleak house
- Ideology of faith in the early career of George Eliot
- fanatical imagination in Bram Stoker's Dracula