Victorian Reformations - 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 Victorian Reformations write by Miriam Elizabeth Burstein. This book was released on 2013-12-30. Victorian Reformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein analyzes the ways in which Christian novelists across the denominational spectrum laid claim to popular genres—most importantly, the religious historical novel—to narrate the aftershocks of 1829, the year of Catholic Emancipation. Both Protestant and Catholic popular novelists fought over the ramifications of nineteenth-century Catholic toleration for the legacy of the Reformation. But despite the vast textual range of this genre, it remains virtually unknown in literary studies. Victorian Reformations is the first book to analyze how “high” theological and historical debates over the Reformation’s significance were popularized through the increasingly profitable venue of Victorian religious fiction. By putting religious apologists and controversialists at center stage, Burstein insists that such fiction—frequently dismissed as overly simplistic or didactic—is essential for our understanding of Victorian popular theology, history, and historical novels. Burstein reads “lost” but once exceptionally popular religious novels—for example, by Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Lady Georgiana Fullerton, and Emily Sarah Holt—against the works of such now-canonical figures as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, while also drawing on material from contemporary sermons, histories, and periodicals. Burstein demonstrates how these novels, which popularized Christian visions of change for a mass readership, call into question our assumptions about the nineteenth-century historical novel. In addition, her research and her conceptual frameworks have the potential to influence broader paradigms in Victorian studies and novel criticism.
Victorian Reformation
Victorian Reformation - 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 Victorian Reformation write by Dominic Janes. This book was released on 2009-04-08. Victorian Reformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In early Victorian England there was intense interest in understanding the early Church as an inspiration for contemporary sanctity. This was manifested in a surge in archaeological inquiry and also in the construction of new churches using medieval models. Some Anglicans began to use a much more complicated form of ritual involving vestments, candles, and incense. This "Anglo-Catholic" movement was vehemently opposed by evangelicals and dissenters, who saw this as the vanguard of full-blown "popery." The disputed buildings, objects, and art works were regarded by one side as idolatrous and by the other as sacred and beautiful expressions of devotion. Dominic Janes seeks to understand the fierce passions that were unleashed by the contended practices and artifacts - passions that found expression in litigation, in rowdy demonstrations, and even in physical violence. During this period, Janes observes, the wider culture was preoccupied with the idea of pollution caused by improper sexuality. The Anglo-Catholics had formulated a spiritual ethic that linked goodness and beauty. Their opponents saw this visual worship as dangerously sensual. In effect, this sacred material culture was seen as a sexual fetish. The origins of this understanding, Janes shows, lay in radical circles, often in the context of the production of anti-Catholic pornography which titillated with the contemplation of images of licentious priests, nuns, and monks.
Victorian Reformations
Victorian Reformations - 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 Victorian Reformations write by Miriam Elizabeth Burstein. This book was released on 2014. Victorian Reformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Miriam Elizabeth Burstein studies the Protestant Reformation as it is represented and continually rewritten in 19th-century and Victorian fiction.
Architecture and Social Reform in Late-Victorian London
Architecture and Social Reform in Late-Victorian London - 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 Architecture and Social Reform in Late-Victorian London write by Deborah E. B. Weiner. This book was released on 1994. Architecture and Social Reform in Late-Victorian London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amidst the sea of squalid brick tenements and working-class two-up, two-down houses of late nineteenth-century London, new building types arose, large in scale and bold in their message: the triple-storied Queen Anne board schools, the mock Elizabethan settlement houses, an Arts and Crafts free public art gallery replete with mystic symbolism, and as first conceived, a neo-Byzantine pleasure palace for the working-classes.
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England - 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 Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England write by Barbara Dennis. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman Question. This title will be of interest to students of history.
