The Devil and the Victorians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil and the Victorians write by Sarah Bartels. This book was released on 2021-03-04. The Devil and the Victorians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.
Woman and the Demon
Woman and the Demon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woman and the Demon write by Nina Auerbach. This book was released on 1982. Woman and the Demon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzes the Victorian conception of both demonic and divine nature of women in Victorian art and literature.
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends write by Simon Young. This book was released on 2022-06-27. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from “Beetle Eyes” to the “Shoplifter’s Dilemma” and from “Hands in the Muff” to the “Suicide Club.” While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.
The Victorians
The Victorians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Victorians write by David Gange. This book was released on 2016-02-04. The Victorians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented transformation, yet it is often understood only through the stereotypes of crowded factories, child labour and emotional repression. In this entertaining and scholarly introduction, Dr David Gange explores the political, social and economic realities that defined life for Victorian people. Weaving together the perspectives of historians and literary scholars with movements in art, science and ethics, Gange paints a colourful, interdisciplinary portrait of everyday life in nineteenth century Britain. The Victorians: A Beginner's Guide features such famous figures as Dickens and Disraeli, while offering a thought-provoking examination of how our perceptions of this pivotal period of history have changed.
The Devil's Redemption : 2 volumes
The Devil's Redemption : 2 volumes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil's Redemption : 2 volumes write by Michael J. McClymond. This book was released on 2018-06-05. The Devil's Redemption : 2 volumes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Will all evil finally turn to good, or does some evil remain stubbornly opposed to God and God's goodness? Will even the devil be redeemed? Addressing a theological issue of perennial interest, this comprehensive book (in two volumes) surveys the history of Christian universalism from the second to the twenty-first century and offers an interpretation of how and why universalist belief arose. The author explores what the church has taught about universal salvation and hell and critiques universalism from a biblical, philosophical, and theological standpoint. He shows that the effort to extend grace to everyone undermines the principle of grace for anyone.
