Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature

This book PDF is perfect for those who love Literary Criticism genre, written by Devon Fisher and published by Routledge which was released on 08 April 2016 with total hardcover pages 221. You could read this book directly on your devices with pdf, epub and kindle format, check detail and related Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature books below.

Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature
Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature
Author : Devon Fisher
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Publisher : Routledge
Language : English
Release Date : 08 April 2016
ISBN : 9781317061809
Pages : 221 pages
Get Book

Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature by Devon Fisher Book PDF Summary

Offering readings of nineteenth-century travel narratives, works by Tractarians, the early writings of Charles Kingsley, and the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, Devon Fisher examines representations of Roman Catholic saints in Victorian literature to assess both the relationship between conservative thought and liberalism and the emergence of secular culture during the period. The run-up to Victoria's coronation witnessed a series of controversial liberal reforms. While many early Victorians considered the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (1828), the granting of civil rights to Roman Catholics (1829), and the extension of the franchise (1832) significant advances, for others these three acts signaled a shift in English culture by which authority in matters spiritual and political was increasingly ceded to individuals. Victorians from a variety of religious perspectives appropriated the lives of Roman Catholic saints to create narratives of English identity that resisted the recent cultural shift towards private judgment. Paradoxically, conservative Victorians' handling of the saints and the saints' lives in their sheer variety represented an assertion of individual authority that ultimately led to a synthesis of liberalism and conservatism and was a key feature of an emergent secular state characterized not by disbelief but by a range of possible beliefs.

Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature

Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature by Devon Fisher

Offering readings of nineteenth-century travel narratives, works by Tractarians, the early writings of Charles Kingsley, and the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, Devon Fisher examines representations of Roman Catholic saints in Victorian literature to assess both the relationship between conservative thought and liberalism and the emergence of secular culture during the

Get Book
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture by Juliet John

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age,

Get Book
Victorian Reformations

Victorian Reformations by Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

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

Get Book
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism by Joanne Parker,Corinna Wagner

In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance) was both pervasive and multi-faceted.

Get Book
Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth century British Culture

Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth century British Culture by Clare A. Simmons

A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.

Get Book
British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt 1840 1910

British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt 1840 1910 by Molly Youngkin

Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egyptian women in their written and visual works. Images of Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British writers such as George Eliot and Edith Cooper came to represent female emancipation.

Get Book
The Lion and the Cross

The Lion and the Cross by Royal W. Rhodes

"In this comprehensive study interrelating religious thought, history, and the topical literature of the Victorian period, Royal W. Rhodes examines more than 130 religious (and some nonreligious) novels by major and minor writers set in early Christian centuries. These Early Church novels were employed by churchly writers of the Victorian period

Get Book
Catholic Devotion in Victorian England

Catholic Devotion in Victorian England by Mary Heimann

Heimann offers a controversial analysis of the influence of long-established recusant devotions and attitudes in the new context of the reestablishment of Roman Catholicism in England from the mid-nineteenth century.

Get Book