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Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula

Christopher Herbert

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Description:Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil conspiracy centered on the attempted dismantling of the humanitarian moral culture of the nation. Examining foundational Evangelical writings by John Wesley and William Wilberforce alongside novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others, Herbert contends that the realistic popular novel of the time was constitutionally alien to Evangelical ideology and even, to some extent, took its opposition to that ideology as its core function. This provocative argument illuminates the frequent linkage of Evangelicalism in nineteenth-century fiction with the characteristic imagery of the Gothic-with black magic, with themes of demonic visitation and vampirism, and with a distinctive mood of hysteria and panic.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula. To get started finding Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0813943418

Description: Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil conspiracy centered on the attempted dismantling of the humanitarian moral culture of the nation. Examining foundational Evangelical writings by John Wesley and William Wilberforce alongside novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others, Herbert contends that the realistic popular novel of the time was constitutionally alien to Evangelical ideology and even, to some extent, took its opposition to that ideology as its core function. This provocative argument illuminates the frequent linkage of Evangelicalism in nineteenth-century fiction with the characteristic imagery of the Gothic-with black magic, with themes of demonic visitation and vampirism, and with a distinctive mood of hysteria and panic.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula. To get started finding Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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